Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 122521
Foster Care: Registration
Tabled: 20 March 2026
Answered: 30 March 2026
Question
Neil Coyle
Labour — Bermondsey and Old Southwark
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national register for foster parents.
Answer
Josh MacAlisterFostering services are required to maintain their own records and registers of approved foster carers in line with the National Minimum Standards and associated regulations.We recently published the ‘Renewing Fostering: Homes for 10,000 More Children’ act...
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