Long-term foster care
A significant number of children and young people who become looked after want a family who can look after them until they are ready to move to independence and who will continue to be their family and a resource to them beyond that point.
Those children and young people who cannot live with their families, who choose not to be adopted or subject to another legal order such as a residence order or a special guardianship order need another choice that is of equal value to those options.
The Fostering Network has long believed that providing a permanent or long-term placement in foster care is the very best option for many looked after children and should have equal status as a placement option.
Useful links
Publications and resources from the Fostering Network
- Long-term foster care policy
- Publisher: The Fostering Network
- Date: 2007
- Policy paper on long term fostering from the Fostering Network.
- Price: Free
- Full details…
- Long-term foster care policy: executive summary
- Publisher: The Fostering Network
- Date: 2007
- Executive summary for policy paper on long term foster care.
- Price: Free
- Full details…
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- Browse The Fostering Network Publications Catalogue 2008
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