Agencies have their own policies and procedures regarding family finding for long-term foster care. This toolkit is designed to support these and to offer a set of helpful resources that can be used individually or collectively throughout the family finding process.
For children who come into care and are unable to return to live with their parents, there are a number of different permanence options. Where long-term fostering is the agreed permanency plan, the fostering service is responsible for finding the right home and family for those children. It is essential that every child in foster care is found the right placement as soon as possible.
All children should be placed with a foster carer who has the skills and experience to meet their needs, including cultural, language and religious background, and ideally within their community. High quality matching and permanency planning is essential to this process and is the first step in achieving safe, stable and permanent foster homes for children who need them.
You can download the free toolkit below.