Recently, BAAF (the British Association for Adoption and Fostering) held a national awareness raising week on private fostering. It is estimated that in the UK, as many as 10,000 children are in private fostering arrangements but only about 1500 are known to the local authorities. But what is private fostering and why should we all know about it? Find out this week with Yvonne who's joined by Callum Robertson.
This week's question: The world's very first Child Protection Agency was created in 1894 in the United States. What inspired it? Was it work to:
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Private fostering
a) stop child labour
b) prevent cruelty to animals
c) educate all children
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Vocabulary
- fostering
- the process of looking after a child for a period of time but without becoming the child's legal parents
- adoption
- the process of taking a child home and becoming its legal parents and family
- sought
- tried to get or obtain, in this case, legal permission
- a care order
- legal permission from the court to take a child away from the people or person they are living with
- to assess
- to measure and find out about
- a carer's capacity
- the ability and potential of a carer to look after a child properly and meet his or her needs
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