This is the main finding from Raising Awareness of Private Fostering, asurvey released this week by the British Association for Adoption &Fostering.
The report also concluded that many private fosterers did not know whatthe term meant.
"There is a widespread lack of understanding about what privatefostering actually entails," said Felicity Collier, chief executive ofthe British Association for Adoption & Fostering.
"We believe that at least 15,000 children in the UK - half of whom wethink are Black African - are being privately fostered.
"We also guess that only 2,000 of them have been alerted to their localauthority, which has a duty to visit them and ensure their safety," sheadded.
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