Fears foster children could end up caring for their disabled foster parent leads interview panels to "too readily question the ability of disabled people to care for children", researchers from the University of Worcester and disabled people’s organisation Shaping Our Lives, have said.
Fostering agencies are also “doing little to encourage disabled people to apply to foster”, a report into the research found.
In addition, the scale of the barriers preventing disabled people from becoming foster carers is not known by Ofsted. The regulator only collects data on the age and ethnicity of carers but does not monitor when they have a disability, says the research.
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