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The role of an independent fostering agency
Can I choose who I foster?
How to foster
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What happens when a child is taken into care?
Fostering process: what happens on an initial home visit?
Can you foster if you have mental health issues?
Fostering with local authority vs independent agency
Interview: Life as a foster parent during the pandemic
Becoming A Foster Carer
Benefits of becoming a foster parent
What is a Care Leaver?
What is a Foster Carer?
What is Foster Care?
Do I become a Foster Carer?
Fostering Regulations
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How to Foster a Child
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How to foster – everything you ever wanted to know
Facts about Foster Care
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Foster Care Handbook
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Changing IFA - Transferring to Capstone
Fostering Definition
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Fostering Outcomes
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Fostering Children UK
Children needing Fostering
8 reasons why a child may be taken into care
Fostering as a Career
Looked after Children
Top transferable job skills to become a foster carer
Fostering as a same sex couple
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Can I foster if I am disabled?
LGBT Fostering Mythbusting
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Can I Foster A Child?
Can you Foster and Work?
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Fostering as a Single Parent
LGBT Family and Foster Care
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Empty Nest Syndrome and Foster Care
10 things you can do when your Children fly the nest
Can I Foster?
Fostering Babies - Myths
Focusing on Parent & Child Fostering
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Fostering Teenagers - Breaking down the Myths
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Mother and Baby Foster Placements
Private Fostering
Therapeutic Fostering - Multi-disciplinary Assessment Treatment & Therapy Service (MATTS)
Young Children Fostering Placements
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How to prepare a child for becoming a care leaver
Children who foster: impact of fostering on birth children
How to prepare your home for a foster child
10 tips for foster children’s education
How to prepare your foster child for secondary school
Tips for coping when foster placements end
Tips for foster parents during Coronavirus
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Fostering allowances and the gender pay gap
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How to adopt from Foster Care
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Supporting foster children’s contact with birth families
How to deal with empty nest syndrome
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Tips and advice on fostering with a disability
10 tips on connecting with your Foster Child
Fostering versus Adoption - What's the difference?
How Fostering can change a future
How to adopt from Foster Care
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How to prepare a Foster Child's bedroom
Online grooming - unwanted contact and how to identify it
Reading and storytelling with Babies and young Children
Supporting Children's Learning
Technology and Internet Safety advice
The 20 most recommended books Foster Carers and young people should read
The impact of early childhood traumas on adolescence and adulthood
Tips for coping with attachment disorders in Foster Children
Tips for supporting reunification in Foster Care
Together for a better Internet - Web Safety for Foster Children
What is sexual abuse and sexual violence
Foster Child behaviour management strategies
Foster Parent Advice: What to expect in your first year of fostering
Capstone's twelve tips at Christmas
10 celebrities who grew up in Foster Care
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Form F Assessor and Assessment Training
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They lobby for improved child welfare, education and training, and regulations regarding adoption and foster care. Statistics the Network provides show that over 65,000 children live with almost 55,000 foster families across the UK each day. This is nearly 80 per cent of the 83,000 children in care away from home on any one day in the UK.
During the course of 12 months up to 31 March 2020, about 30,000 children entered into care with similar numbers leaving the system. Those who leave do so for a variety of reasons. Some return to their own homes or go to live with a relative, some age out of the care system, some are subjected to a residence or special guardianship order, and some are adopted.
Statistical reports gathered and published by government departments and bodies for England provide statistics for the entire UK, breaking down the statistics into England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. On 31 March 2020, there were 57,380 children in England living with foster families compromising of 72% of the 80,080 children in care looked after away from home.
In the year leading up to 31 March 2020, there were a total of approximately 80,080 in care (this could be across fostering or residential settings). This is approximately 1% of all children in England under the age of 18 and an increase of 2% from the previous year. 59% of all foster care placements were made through local authorities with independent fostering agencies such as Capstone Foster Care making the remainder of the placements.
Currently there are about 44,500 foster families in England and an active need for over 7,000 more foster families.
Information from statistical reports from government entities for children in public care in England during the period ending 31 March 2020 provides insight into the support and resources available as well as the children’s needs for a safe family situation.
Looking at the 80,080 children in the care of local authorities on 31st March 2020, 56% were boys. The majority (39%) were between 10 and 15 years old, 24% were 16 or over and 18% were between 5 and 9 years old. Of the rest, 5% were under a year old and 13% were between 1 and 4 years old.
Ethnically, 74% were white, 10% were of mixed racial background, 8% were Black or Black British, 8% were from other ethnic groups.
72% of the children and young people were living with foster carers, 13% were living in secure units, children’s homes or hostels, and 7% were placed with their parents. 3% were placed for adoption and 3% living independently or in residential employment.
The brief statistical overview of part of the foster care system indicates that there is a national foster care crisis and a deep social need for people to consider foster care. If you are interested in fostering or have questions, contact Capstone Foster Care for further information on 0800 012 4004 or simply click here.
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