Becoming a foster carer - Being a foster carer - Financial matters
... in touch with their families often live in long-term foster care and have continued support from their local authority or health and social care trust. Foster carers never have parental responsibility ...
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Advocacy and young people
Foster carers have an essential role to play in enabling the voice of the child ... as children are at higher risk of poor mental and physical health, and worse outcomes in general. Many fostered children in Wales have ...
Legislative background surrounding health
The Children Act 1989 Care Planning, Placement and Case Review ... should be written within two weeks of the child coming into foster care. The plan is likely to include the following:
identification ...
Principles of promoting health and wellbeing
It is important that foster carers understand their responsibilities around health care, medical treatment and consent so that they can support a child’s ...
... placement order from the courts. In these arrangements, the foster carers will also need to be approved as adopters.
For more ... the local authority (in England, Scotland and Wales) or health and social care trust (in Northern Ireland) in which the child lives ...
... allowances paid to carers looking after a young person whose foster care placement has changed to a continuing care placement once they turn ... paid by all local authorities in England and Wales, and health and social services trusts in Northern Ireland, to ensure they meet ...
... to all legislation relating to children and young people in foster care in England. Legislation Children Act 1989 – available at ... . Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children: Statutory Guidance for Local ...
All foster carers in the UK are trained, assessed and approved, and then receive ...
Local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales, and health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland, have the ultimate responsibility to look after ...
... in Northern Ireland’s inaugural President’s Award during Foster Care Fortnight 2019 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to ... a fostering family. She has consistently supported her local Health and Social Care Trust and The Fostering Network in demonstrating the ...
... with and looks after a fostered child on a day-to-day basis, foster carers are often the team member who knows and understands them best. ... to be recognised and treated as professionals by teachers, health care workers, police and others involved in children’s lives.
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State of the Nation's Foster Care report
The survey, which took place in the summer of ... say that they are supporting fostered children with mental health needs who are not accessing specialist support; and 43 per cent of ...
... not consistently being applied in practice across the UK and foster carers are still not always being trusted to make decisions, which ... authority in Wales (2011):
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Just as there is diversity in fostered children , foster carers need to come from a variety of backgrounds and have different ... which will be taken into account will include:
Your health – are you fit and able to foster for now and the foreseeable future? ...
... no longer a looked after child and their placement with a foster family can no longer be classed as a foster placement.
This is the ... to improve outcomes for care leavers across housing, health, employment and more, building tailored offers for care leavers, and ...
Annual reviews
A review of foster carers’ approval must take place not more than a year after approval, ... in the foster carer’s household – for example, a serious health issue, or separation or divorce.
The review process
Each ... age range and any other information about the type of foster care that they are approved to provide.
Once they have been fostering for ...
... activity and fostering services need to recruit to replace foster carers who are leaving the service for many different reasons.
In ...
Local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales and health and social services trusts in Northern Ireland almost always want to ...
... which aid their personal and social development.
A foster carer’s role and responsibility
As a foster carer, it is your ... Fostering Network can provide an in-house training course on health, tailored to meet your service’s needs. Contact our training team ...
The survey, CUTS - the view from foster carers (England): the impact of austerity measures on fostered children ... their social workers and other services, especially mental health services.
Key findings
• Two-thirds of foster carers (70 ...
... services) support to both the young person and to the former foster carers. This includes foster carers approved and supported by ... family contacts
child sexual exploitation
mental health and wellbeing
drugs and alcohol – use and misuse
therapeutic ...
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England
55,200 children were living with foster families on 31 March 2018.
This is nearly four-fifths (78%) of the ... targets .
For more details see the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety website .
Scotland
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