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The diary of a Fostering Consultant during Foster Care Fortnight

News and updates-

Emma Fincham shares what she has been up to throughout Foster Care Fortnight. The past two weeks have provided many occasions for celebration in addition to bringing into sharp focus some of the dilemmas foster carers face.

Private Fostering Awareness Day: Lunch and Learn

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FREE FOR MEMBERS
This year’s lunchtime session for Private Fostering Awareness Day will focus on the complexities, challenges and solutions in private fostering social work practice. We will hear from local authority practitioners, the voices of private foster carers, parents and young people and consider some of the complexities that arise in private fostering arrangements.

Devising and updating risk assessment and management plans in fostering

Bookshop product- 978 1 913384 02 9 - Paul Adams

Assessing and managing risk is an essential part of ensuring that children in foster care are kept as safe as possible, and is central to the statutory framework and to Ofsted inspection. This practical guide, in association with CoramBAAF’s Form R, is designed to help social workers and foster carers to complete and update individual safeguarding plans for fostered children in England.

Fostering Advisor
Fostering Advisor An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Fostering Advisor to join us on a part-time basis, 22.50 hours per week. The ideal candidate will be passionate about improving the lives of children and young people. The postholder will be an experienced social care practitioner with extensive and up to date knowledge of the fostering regulations. The postholder should be able to offer sound advice to the Fostering Panel Chair and to the Agency Decision Maker to ensure the best outcomes are achieved for children. Buckinghamshire Council £55,912 - £58,653 pro rata Aylesbury BUC11127 22.50

Parental consent and children/young people who are living in private fostering arrangements

Bookshop product-- Ann Horne, Augusta Itua and Clare Seth

This Practice Note explains that private fostering does not require parental consent, either written or verbal. The local authority must assess and monitor any such arrangement under the Children Act 1989 and the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations 2005, focusing on safeguarding and promoting the child’s welfare rather than how the arrangement came about. While parental involvement is encouraged, it is not a legal requirement.