Effective fostering panels

Fostering panels have a crucial role to play in the provision and monitoring of foster care for looked after children and foster families. Fostering panel members need reliable information and advice to carry out their duties effectively and responsibly. For panel members and social workers, this guide brings together all the information you need to know about regulations, standards and inspections concerning fostering panels.

It also sets out good practice to agencies in the operation of effective panels, relevant to all fostering service providers. Although the fostering regulations apply in England only, agencies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will find much of this practice applicable to their work.

Appendices, including a glossary of useful terms, sample job descriptions, person specifications and review forms for panel members and panel Chairs, are all provided at the end of the guide and can be purchased as electronic downloads.

This guide is for members of fostering panels, as well as all those who may come into contact with the work of panels, including managers and social workers in fostering agencies, foster carers and kinship carers.

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