Parent and child fostering

Parent and child arrangements with foster carers are now a well-established form of placement. In most cases, this means adults with their children living with foster carers, usually in the context of care proceedings. This is a specialist area characterised by the uniqueness of having adult parents in the foster home. This brings new challenges to fostering services that may be at different stages in their development of parent and child arrangements.

This unique guide offers invaluable advice, information and practical suggestions on how to deliver a good quality parent and child fostering service. The issues are not straightforward, and services must be consider how this particular type of fostering differs from traditional fostering, from approval, through matching to support and training.

This guide is amply illustrated with case examples of good practice from local authority and independent fostering services. It also includes a helpful set of assessment and matching forms that can be used by fostering services in their parent and child fostering cases. Please note that the forms can also be purchased as a separate electronic document for unlimited future use.

This guide is ideal for all local authority and independent fostering service social workers and managers who are involved with parent and child fostering, or who are considering offering such a service.

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