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Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
Being a foster parent means caring for a child as part of your family. To…
There are many types of foster care. The application process is the same…
All foster parents receive a foster care allowance to cover the cost of…
The process starts when you apply to become a foster parent and finishes…
Before you can foster a child you must pass an assessment by a social…
The fostering service will contact you to tell you the result of your…
Guidance and a suggested template for local authorities and independent fostering agencies to use when sending fostering data to Ofsted.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an independent fostering agency.
Apply to foster a child through the social services department of your local council
Support for foster carers, including financial help, tax arrangements, how to make decisions for your foster child, claiming benefit while fostering, and other help.
Statistics on the number of notifications of private fostering arrangements in England in 2010 to 2015.
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
Fostering or adopting a child, including from abroad, and being a surrogate mother
Guidance for local authorities on the national minimum standards for providing fostering services.
Application form to request information that we hold on individuals.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an independent fostering agency.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects independent fostering agencies.
A summary of what attending a review panel is like and the documents that you can submit to the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM).
We provide independent panels that review suitability to adopt or foster and other decisions made by adoption and fostering providers. IRM works with the Department for Education .
Government response to the Foster Care in England report and the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into fostering.
Further analysis of the recruitment and retention of carers in mainstream fostering, as at 31 March 2023.
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