Foster Parent Handbook Part 2 – Welcoming Children

Chapter Overviews
Matching Children with Families
  • ISP Placements Service
  • The matching process, including risk assessments and how information is shared
Placement Planning
  • Planned placements and emergency placements
  • Bedroom requirements
  • Placement Planning Meetings and Placement Plans
Delegated Authority
  • An introduction to delegated authority and how it is recorded
Transitions
  • Beginning a new placement, stages of adjustment
  • Suitcases
  • Ending placements
Care Planning and Case Reviews
  • Care Plans and reviews
  • The role of the child’s social worker and IRO
Young People’s Wishes and Feelings
  • Children’s guides
  • Participation
  • External services e.g. Independent Visitors, advocates
  • The Children’s Commissioner
Contact with Birth Family (aka ‘Family Time’)
  • Principles of contact
  • The importance of the birth family
  • The role of the foster parent, and support for foster parents
  • Supervised contact and restriction/termination of contact
  • Recording requirements
Identity, Equality and Inclusion
  • Promoting positive identities and valuing diversity
  • Diversity issues including race, religion, sex and gender
  • Dealing with discrimination
  • Identification (birth certificates, passports)
  • Life story work