Register of foster carers

The Fostering Network welcomes the development of a long-term workforce strategy for health and social care. We fully support the vision of the draft strategy and the belief set out in the foreword of the strategy that ‘we need to see what we spend on our workforce as an investment not a cost’.

The issue

The Fostering Network believes that the introduction of a register of foster carers in each of the four countries of the UK – something we have long called for – would address three current issues in the fostering system: