Regulation 7(1)(a)
1. His date of birth, health (supported by a medical report), personality and marital status (including any previous marriage).
2. Particulars of the other adult members of the household and their relationship to the prospective foster carer.
3. Particulars of the children in his family, whether or not members of his household, and any other children in his household.
4. Address and particulars of his accommodation.
5. His religious persuasion, the degree of his religious observance and his capacity to care for a child from any particular religious persuasion.
6. His racial origin, cultural and linguistic background and his capacity to care for a child of any particular origin or cultural and linguistic background.
7. His past and present employment or occupation, and his standard of living.
8. Leisure activities and interests.
9. His present capacity to care for his own and other children and previous experience of caring for his own and other children and his ability in this respect.
10. Any previous criminal convictions and those of other members of his household (subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(1)).
11. The outcome of any request or application made by him or any other member of his household to foster or adopt children or for registration under section 71 of the Children Act 1989(2) or any previous amendment of that section.
12. Particulars of any previous approval under regulation 7, or refusal of approval or termination of such approval, relating to him or any other member of his household.
13. An analysis of the applicant’s motivation in wanting to be a foster carer.
14. References from third parties as to the applicant’s character and suitability to be a foster carer.