Special guardianship orders became available in England and Wales from30 December 2005. They provide a new form of legal permanence forchildren who cannot grow up in their birth families.
The plans could introduce a fee that local authorities would pay toindependent fostering providers if one of their carers became a specialguardian.
This would compensate them for the cost of recruiting and trainingfoster carers.
Robert Tapsfield, chief executive of the Fostering Network, told aChildren Now conference last week that the protocol for when fostercarers move between providers was being reviewed. He said: "The protocolis well respected and is approved by local authorities. But it doesn'tcover special guardianship as it is so new."
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