Submitted on Friday 13th May 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 17th May 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Protect people applying to be foster carers in the UK.
To ensure people going through an assessment to become foster carers are protected from potential wrongdoing by a culture of openness, honesty and transparency within the nation’s Children’s Services depts. And where mistakes do happen, those applying are offered a clear route to complain.
(1) Halt all current fostering assessments, to give social services depts a chance to check those applying are happy.
(2) Offer all future applicants a named support worker, who they can turn to if they think an assessment is going wrong. As has been done by ESCC, following a serious complaint about the conduct of one such assessment.
(3) For a break to be inserted in all future fostering assessments, so the welfare of applicants can be checked. As in ESCC.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand you're concerned about the fostering assessment process, however it's not clear what you want to happen if a potential foster carer is 'unhappy'. Current and prospective foster carers can already make a complaint about any aspect of the fostering service which affects them directly, and that fostering service will have its own process for dealing with such complaints. If you have a specific concern about the fostering service in your area, you could get in contact with them.
You could have a petition calling for the Government to hold a review of fostering services in the UK, and to fund local authorities to provide more fostering support workers, if that is something you'd like to see happen.
You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/615221
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