Independent Foster Agency / Children’s Care Home Bundle
£999.00 £599.00
Independent Foster Agency / Children’s Care Home Bundle
Setting up a foster agency is not an easy thing to do. We would like to caution individual providers of setting up a foster agency. This can also take 6 months or even more to register. The provider will need to have experience staff in this field. The manager needs to meet the criteria of experience of managing a foster agency.
Independent foster agency providers and manager’s must meet key functions of an independent fostering agency are to recruit, assess, approve, train, supervise, support and review foster carers who care for children looked after by local authorities. It cannot undertake any of these functions before it is registered. In order to register, anyone who wishes to open an independent fostering agency must demonstrate how they meet a number of legal requirements and minimum standards for fostering services.
Inspection can take between 7-12 months from application submitted.
This is a guide to opening a foster agency: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-to-independent-fostering-agencies
In summary, an independent fostering agency must have:
- a registered provider and, when the provider is an organisation such as a company, a person known as a ‘responsible individual’ who represents the organisation to Ofsted
- a registered manager
- a statement of purpose that sets out the overall aims of the fostering agency and the children they provide care for;[1] the law sets out the information this must contain
- a children’s guide, which is a summary of the statement of purpose, the complaints procedure and the address and telephone number of Ofsted in a form that is appropriate to the age, understanding and communication needs of the children the fostering agency provides services for
- a number of policies and procedures – these are set out in Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards 2011.
[1] The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011, Regulation 3(1); http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/581/regulation/3/made
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