If the rate of voluntary notification about private fostering does not improve then local authorities face being hit with a compulsory registration scheme next year.
The Commission for Social Care Inspection inspected 50 local authorities last financial year, before it merged with Ofsted. But the findings from the inspections, which were unveiled last week at a British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF) conference, show only one in ten councils have developed a comprehensive strategy on private fostering arrangements.
Of the remainder, 14 per cent had made significant progress on notifications, but 54 per cent had seen little or no progress and 22 per cent knew of only one or fewer privately fostered children in their area.
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