Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 122521

Foster Care: Registration

Tabled: 20 March 2026
Answered: 30 March 2026

Question

Neil Coyle

LabourBermondsey 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 MacAlister
Fostering 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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