Caring for Our Children: Enhancing Fostering Provision and Support
Hillingdon Council's Children, Families and Education Select Committee is reviewing fostering services to enhance support and improve outcomes.
Hillingdon Council's Children, Families and Education Select Committee decided in September 2025 to review fostering services, aiming to enhance support and improve outcomes for children in care. The review will focus on recruitment, retention, and overall effectiveness of the council's fostering provision. It will consider support services for children in foster care, such as social work, health, and education, and for foster carers, including training, respite, and financial packages.
The committee agreed to a scoping report outlining the review during its meeting on 25 September 2025. This initiative, titled 'Caring for Our Children: Enhancing Fostering Provision and Support', seeks to improve the council's fostering services. No further meetings are currently scheduled for this topic.
Key facts
- Hillingdon Council's Children, Families and Education Select Committee decided to review fostering services in September 2025. Source
- The review will focus on recruitment, retention, and overall effectiveness of fostering provision. Source
- It will consider support for children in foster care and for foster carers. Source
- The decision to review fostering services was made on 25 September 2025. Source
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