This review analyzes and critiques the foster care system in England, offering recommendations for improving the system. The review provides data on the children in care, education, wellbeing, and foster carers. It reviews the compensation for foster carers and the strategies currently in place to help carers make fostering more effective, making recommendations for improving each. The review also examines foster carer recruitment and retention practices and policies, as well as the matching of foster carers with children and youth. Furthermore, it explores children's contact with family, as well as with friends from previous placements and contact with siblings. And, finally, it review permanence for children. The review concludes with a list of recommendations.
