Planning and Review Meetings
Foster carer's personal and family circumstances change over time. Changes in family membership, health, attitudes and sometimes in physical surroundings can affect the placement of foster children. It is the responsibility of the Local Authority to review all carers at regular intervals. The statutory basis of foster carers reviews is provided by the Fostering of Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996. The Regulations specify the minimum frequency of reviews to be annually.
Additional reviews may be arranged in the following circumstances:
- There is a significant change in the carer's circumstances which may have an effect on the child placed in the foster home.
- The carers express a wish to take extra children.
- A serious complaint is received from the foster carer or about the foster carer's care of the child.
- The carers have been asked to accommodate a child or young person out with their approval range for more than very short time.