The FosterTalk
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Fostering panels must remain a core part of a reformed and improved fostering process.
We have joined with several leading children’s and foster care charities to write to the Minister for Children and Families to make that case clearly.
We are very concerned that the proposals to remove panels for the approval of foster carers would take away an important process that safeguards children so that they be cared for safely in another adult’s home. Panels provide a critical safeguard, independent scrutiny, and an important layer of quality assurance in foster carer approval which protects children. They help strengthen quality, consistency and accountability of the foster carer approval process in a way that should not be lost through the reforms.
We also heard consistently from across the sector that people with lived experience must continue to play an integral role in approval of foster carers and services more widely.
Read the joint open letter to the Minister here
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