1. Public Care in Private Places Looking after other people’s children in your own home Jim Rose

2. Fostering in the United Kingdom (2013) 64,850 children ‘in care’ living away from home 50,900 children in foster care 50,000 foster care families but… 10,000 vacancies in the next 12 months Fostering in the UK is regulated by… National Minimum Standards (2011) Fostering Service Guidance (2011) The Fostering Regulations (2011)

3. Foster Care. Safe A home that is… Loving Nurturing

4. Foster Care. Social A relationship that is… Emotional Educational the basis for a child’s healthy development

5. Foster Care. Report writing A professional task Care planning Attending meetings

6. The Child in Foster Care Early trauma Overwhelming behaviour Resistance

7. friends own family foster child and birth family outsideagencies

8. Supporting Foster Carers Containing anxiety Thinking together Going the extra mile Staying with it Showing concern

9. What children want from Foster Care: Foster carers who are Concerned about them Ambitious for their futures Prepared to go the extra mile Prepared to stay with them

10. For further information Jim Rose www.fosteringfoundation.co.uk