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Leading charities the Fostering Network Wales and Action for Children-Gweithredu dros Blant today welcomed the Welsh Assembly’s decision to extend the age that fostered young people can stay with their foster carers until 21, but are seeking assurances that local authorities will receive extra money from the Government to fund young people wishing to stay with their foster families.
Following ongoing debate about staying put in residential care, since the Government in England announced that fostered young people could stay with their foster carers until 21, the Fostering Network would like to make the following comment to clarify its position:
The Fostering Network Wales is calling on the Welsh Government to ensure that the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill places a duty on local authorities to allow and support fostered young people to stay with their foster carers beyond the age of 17, ahead of a crucial vote on the Bill tomorrow (Tuesday 11 February).
The Fostering Network is calling on Assembly Members to support a once-a-generation chance to change the law so that fostered young people in Wales can stay with their foster carers until the age of 21.
Twelve leading charities have joined together to call on the Welsh Government to change the law so that fostered young people in Wales can stay with their foster carers until the age of 21.
Alan Baird, Chief Social Work Adviser to the Scottish Government, has today given the Scottish Government’s response to the recommendations of the fostering review, at a Children in Scotland conference in Edinburgh.
AT LEAST 8,600 new foster families are needed across the UK during 2014 to provide stable, secure and loving homes for the record numbers of fostered children, according to figures out today from the Fostering Network.
In response to the Scottish Government's announcement that young people in care who turn 16 from 1 April 2015 will be able to stay until 21, director of the Fostering Network Scotland Sara Lurie, said:
“We are pleased that the Scottish Government has recognised the importance of ensuring young people in care can stay beyond the age of 18, and is making this change to the law.
As you may know from updates on the Fostering Network website, the once in a lifetime opportunity to ensure that young people can stay with their foster carer until they are ready to leave is almost upon us.
In around three weeks the House of Lords will be considering whether to support an amendment to the Children and Families Bill which would ensure that more young people could stay with their foster carers beyond the age of 17.
