Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year
Community Care
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The number of mainstream fostering households in England has shrunk for the second consecutive year, despite the country’s growing care population. There was a net loss of 1,045 mainstream household in 2022-23 on the back of a fall of 1,275 in 2021-22, showed Ofsted’s annual data collection on fostering, published last week. This means there has been a 6% fall, to 35,005, in the number of mainstream households in England over the past two years, with the bulk of the fall (1,660 out o
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