Professionals were due to gather in London this week for a British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF) conference on private fostering. It follows the first England-wide campaign, Somebody Else's Child, to raise awareness of private fostering.
Over the past month, councils have been busy publicising the need for parents and professionals to let local authorities know when a child is cared for by someone other than a parent or close relative for more than 28 days consecutively.
It's now nearly four years since the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations 2005 came into force. But notification rates remain stubbornly low. The latest figures show that at 31 March 2008, 1,330 children were privately fostered - a small increase on the 2005 figures.
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