Fostering for the future: improving the foster care system

Overview

This call for evidence focuses on areas where we want to gather further information from the sector and those with lived experience about possible future reforms to the fostering system.

Why your views matter

We want to take this opportunity to ask about what might need to change in fostering, and how we can spread the best evidence on what works. We want to gather views and strengthen our evidence base on a number of key issues:

• Financial transparency
• A foster care register
• Amending the fostering limit
• DBS checks and vetting for prospective foster carers
• Consistency in handling of allegations for those inside and outside of the care system
• Innovation
• Removing barriers for kinship care