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Focus on care experienced children and young people.
Support the foster carer workforce.
Invest and reform in the wider system supporting care experienced children and young people.
The survey, which took place in the summer of 2021, covered key practice and workforce issues such as placement stability, training and support for carers, and status and authority of the workforce. In total, 3,352 foster carers and 99 fostering services took the survey, maitaning it as the largest and most comprehensive survey of fostering in the UK.
Our 2024 State of the Nations survey is now live!
We're urging foster carers and fostering service managers to take the opportunity to share your views and be part of real change. For the first time the survey is open to non-members and foster carers who have left fostering, so please share with your networks to help us include the widest range of voices possible.
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Our 2021 State of the Nation survey showed that both foster carers and fostering services agree that improving the status of foster carers in the team around the child is the number one thing that will change children’s experience of foster care for the better. Read our full report into foster carer status here.
Following on from the Government initiating the official EU withdrawal process in March 2017, there was – and continues to be – much speculation as what would happen to EU nationals who were currently residing in the UK. The Fostering Network received enquiries from fostering services worrying about approving people as foster carers who were non-UK EU nationals, and also about the long-term stability of placing fostered children with foster carers who were non-UK EU nationals.
