Foster Care: Recruitment

(asked on 26th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to share innovative practices in foster carer recruitment among local authorities.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This question was answered on 4th October 2019

As set out in ‘Fostering Better Outcomes (2018)’, we are providing seed funding for feasibility studies in commissioning and sufficiency planning, bringing together local authorities with their partners to explore innovative practices, including collaborative approaches to foster care recruitment.

In addition, the department is also commissioning research on applying behavioural insight approaches to the recruitment of prospective foster carers and adopters. We will use this research to support the sector in developing evidence-based recruitment approaches.

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