The National Fostering Association Consortium also aims to ensure the skills and qualifications of foster carers are better recognised in the care sector.
It also aims to lobby the Department for Education on foster care issues.
Supporting the consortium is Foster Support, a not-for-profit company that focuses on improving retention and recruitment among foster carers.
A focus is on promoting collaboration and sharing of good practice among fostering groups across the UK as well as with councils’ children services departments.
According to Foster Support director Jane Collins the consortium’s focus on collaboration has been modelled on an arrangement Surrey Fostering Association has with its local authority to ensure “foster carers’ views and voices are head and respected”.
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