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This course will equip new supervising social workers with the knowledge and skills to undertake assessment quality assessments of applicants to foster. Experienced practitioners will have an opportunity to review and develop their own practice, exploring a range of assessment methods an tools.
In the fostering context, personal references are a statutory requirement in the process of assessing an applicant’s suitability to foster. The legislation across the UK provides the legal basis for the duty of fostering service providers to:
In England and Wales a review of foster carers’ approval must take place not more than a year after approval, and thereafter whenever the fostering service provider considers it necessary, but at intervals of not more than a year. In England and Wales fostering regulations make it clear that the first review must go back to the fostering panel. After that, there is no legal requirement for a review to go back to panel, although the fostering service can choose to do so.
