Future of foster care consultation
Retention of foster carers - raising concerns
Given their significant involvement in the upbringing of a child, foster carers are often well placed to highlight poor and unsafe practice in fostering, and child protection more generally or issues relating to the fostering services. Many foster carers already do that and are supported by fostering services and local authorities who have policies in place to support and encourage raising concerns without it adversely impacting upon the foster carers, or the care that is provided to the child.