Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 35827

Foster Care

Tabled: 5 March 2025

Answered: 22 March 2025

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will (a) extend legal protections for and (b) improve financial security available to foster carers.

Answer

Janet Daby

The Children’s Act 1989 and subsequent statutory guidance sets out strong safeguards to protect foster carers from unfair treatment, including the requirement for fostering services to have a complaints procedure and whistle-blowing policy. The department...

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