Read our Foster Parent Charter and Professional Code of Conduct
Chapter Overviews
Fostering Services
- The legal framework for fostering
- National Minimum Standards
- The role of a foster parent
Types of Placement
- Types of fostering placement
- Permanence, Staying Put arrangements
- Special Guardianship and adoption
Approval as a Foster Parent
- Becoming a foster parent and terms of approval and your Foster Care Agreement
- Foster Parent Charter and Professional Code of Conduct
- Fostering Annual Reviews and the Fostering Panel
Support and Supervision
- Your ISP Centre, Supervising Social Worker and Fostering Advisor
- Supervision, unannounced visits and inspections
- Support arrangements, including the Out of Hours service, respite, transport services
- Foster Talk membership and rewards from ISP
Training
- TSDS and training requirements, including mandatory courses
- ISP Therapeutic Pathway
- How to book courses and access training records
Record Keeping
- Legal requirements,e g. confidentiality, GDPR
- Your records kept by ISP
- Records you are required to keep as foster parents
- Charms recording
Finances
- Fostering fees and allowances
- Disability Living Allowance
- Financial Advice and accounting services
- The Exchange, and the Refer-a-Friend scheme
