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Children - fostering service Duty
- Description
- A LA (acting as a Fostering Service Provider) must have, and keep under review, a statement of purpose setting out the aims, objectives, services and facilities provided by the fostering service, and a children's guide to the service.
FSPs must safeguard and promote the welfare of children placed by them (in so far as these duties are not already imposed by the 1989 Act), implement policies for the safeguarding of children, promote contact between foster children and their families; promote the health and development and the educational achievement of foster children; provide support and information to foster parents; have a procedure for considering complaints made by or on behalf of foster children and foster parents. They must comply with requirements relating to the staffing of the fostering service, record keeping and the assessment of prospective foster parents.
- Modified
- 19 Mar 2024
- Status
- Live
- is found in the following lists
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- requires
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