Understand the context of supporting children and young people through foster care
In this tutorial you will learn:
- About the issues that foster families can face
- About the responsibilities of foster carers, and national standards
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Fostering legislation in England’ from The Fostering Network website.
- ‘Looked-after children and young people’ from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012
- 'Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards’, produced by the Department for Education
- ‘Contact in foster care’ from The Fostering Network website.
- ‘Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children’ from the Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
- ‘The fostering system in England: Evidence review’ by Mary Baginsky, Sarah Gorin and Claire Sands, King’s College London and Quest Research and Evaluation Ltd
- ‘Looked after children’ from the NSPCC
- ‘Looked-after children and young people’ from the national Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
- ‘The Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations Volume 4: Fostering Services’ from the Department for Education
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This articled from the FCA, an independent fostering agency, looks at ‘How being in care affects children’s mental health’.
- This article from Norfolk County Council’s section on ‘Caring for a looked-after child’ covers the child’s ‘Identity’. You may wish to read the other sections, or find the equivalent document from your own local authority.
- You may want to look at this Department for Education webpage to find out more about statistics on children under local authority care at national and local authority level.
- Click to read ‘Attachment Theory and Children in Care’ from Fusion Fostering.
- This document by Susan Hois looks at the ‘Effects of separation and loss on children’s development.
- Think And Challenge
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