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The Towards a Professional Foster Care Service: what it means to be a professional foster carer policy paper is the culmination of many months of consultation with foster carers, social workers and other key professionals in all four nations to produce a definitive statement of where fostering is today and how the Fostering Network believes it should develop over the coming years.

It argues that we are moving towards a professional foster care service and that, as we do so, we need to understand what it means to be a professional foster carer. We make the case for why foster carers should be regarded as professionals, and put forward recommendations for how the foster carer role needs to be better supported, enhanced and recompensed if foster carers are truly to be recognised as key partners in the team surrounding the child and valid members of the children’s workforce.