Consultations archive

This archive contains previously active consultations from the Fostering Network that have had an input into the fabric of fostering in the UK.

UK

• The Fostering Network's response to the Border and Immigration Agency code of practice for keeping children safe from harm, April 2008
• Towards a professional foster care service, November 2007
• Response to the DCSF's consultation on guidance for handling allegations, October 2006.

England

• The Fostering Network’s response to the Home Office consultation paper Planning Better Outcomes and Support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, May 2007
• Moving on from foster care - consultation for young people
• Foster carers and smoking, June 2007
• Private fostering - Consultation on the draft Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations 2005, draft National Minimum Standards for private fostering and the draft replacement Children Act 1989 guidance on private fostering.
• Getting the best from complaints
• National minimum standards
• Special guardianship
• Transport and social exclusion

Northern Ireland

No consultations are currently archived for Northern Ireland

Scotland

View recent consultations in Scotland.

Wales

• The Fostering Network Wales response to the WAG consultation document on national minimum fostering allowances, February 2007
• Disqualification from caring for children
• National minimum standards - Wales