Statutory guidance
Fostering services: assessment and approval of foster carers
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the assessment and approval process of foster carers for looked-after children.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for local authorities and their staff, including:
- children’s services social workers
- supervising social workers
- front-line managers who have particular responsibilities in relation to looked-after children
- directors of children’s services
- managers of services for looked-after children
- commissioners of services for looked-after children
It is also relevant to independent fostering services and foster carers. Looked-after children and the families of looked-after children may also have an interest.
This guidance replaces the following paragraphs of volume 4 ‘Children Act 1989: fostering services’:
- 5.29 to 5.38 (assessment and approval of foster carers)
- 5.42 to 5.44 (independent review mechanism)
- 5.46 to 5.53 (the usual fostering limit)
- 5.59 to 5.63 (reviews and terminations of approval of foster carers)
- 5.39 to 5.41 (the decision maker)
Related statutory guidance
- Volume 1 - Children Act 1989: court orders
- Volume 2 - Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review
- Volume 3 - Children Act 1989: transition to adulthood for care leavers
- Volume 4 - Children Act 1989: fostering services
- Volume 5 - Children Act 1989: children’s homes
Updates to this page
Published 15 July 2013