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Closed call for evidence

Fostering for the future: improving the foster care system

Applies to England

Summary

Seeking views on a range of issues in fostering, evidence of what works, best practice and innovative ideas.

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Call for evidence description

The Department for Education is seeking views from:

  • anyone working in fostering or related areas
  • people with lived experience of fostering

We’d like your views on a broad range of issues to help develop longer-term policy on fostering reform.

This call for evidence accompanies:

We want to identify innovative ideas and seek views on how we can improve the foster care system to develop future reform proposals.

Alongside this plan, we have published a regional care cooperatives policy paper.

A version for children and young people is also available.

Updates to this page

Published 4 February 2026

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