fostering

Help us improve the registration process for children’s social care services and early years and childcare provision

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Are you planning to register a children’s social care service, or register as an early years or childcare provider? We’d love to hear from you!  Ofsted is running user research sessions to explore how we can improve the application process.   If you're thinking of registering any of the services listed below, …

Foster Care Fortnight 2023

A woman and two men sitting with a young child, smiling and talking.

As we begin another Foster Care Fortnight, I want to again offer our rightful appreciation to the people providing incredible yet often unremarked-on foster care to tens of thousands of children every year. Fostering a child is an incredibly generous and selfless thing to do even in the best of circumstances. But in the tough …

Foster Care Fortnight – 9 to 22 May 2022

Foster carer and child sat on sofa together.

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, celebrates foster carers’ invaluable contribution to the lives of the children they care for. This Foster Care Fortnight, as ever, we take our collective hats off to all foster carers, for the …