The Fostering Services Regulations 2002

Education, employment and leisure activities

16.—(1) The fostering service provider shall promote the educational attainment of children placed with foster parents.

(2) In particular the fostering service provider shall—

(a) establish a procedure for monitoring the educational attainment, progress and school attendance of children placed with foster parents;

(b) promote the regular school attendance and participation in school activities of school aged children placed with foster parents; and

(c) provide foster parents with such information and assistance, including equipment, as may be necessary to meet the educational needs of children placed with them.

(3) The fostering service provider shall ensure that any education it provides for any child placed with foster parents who is of compulsory school age but not attending school is efficient and suitable to the child’s age, ability, aptitude, and any special educational needs he may have.

(4) The fostering service provider shall ensure that foster parents promote the leisure interests of children placed with them.

(5) Where any child placed with foster parents has attained the age where he is no longer required to receive compulsory full-time education, the fostering service provider shall assist with the making of, and give effect to, the arrangements made for his education, training and employment.