Fostering
Fostering through your council, training, standards, fostering agencies, data collection forms, 'staying put' arrangements.
Services
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Becoming a foster parent
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
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Looking after someone else's child
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
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Apply to foster a child through your council
Apply to foster a child through the social services department of your local council
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TSD standards workbook for foster carers
Form for foster carers to prove they meet the required training, support and development (TSD) standards.
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TSD standards workbook for family and friends foster carers
Form for family and friends foster carers to fill in to prove that they meet the training, support and development standards.
Guidance and regulation
- Fostering services: national minimum standards
- Fostering services: assessment and approval of foster carers
- Children Act 1989: private fostering
- Staying put: arrangements for care leavers aged 18 years and above
- Introduction to independent fostering agencies
News and communications
- Ofsted: Lack of foster carers mean children missing out on support
- Services for vulnerable children in the Northeast rated Outstanding
- Staying Put grant: determination letter
- New support for foster families to overcome trauma
- Plans to help children in foster care experience loving and stable homes
Research and statistics
- Children looked after in England including adoption: 2020 to 2021
- Fostering in England 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019
- Social care questionnaires 2020: what children and young people told Ofsted
- Children looked after in England including adoption: 2019 to 2020
- Fostering in England 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020