Foster Carer Recruitment and Assessment: Are Both Teams Having the Same Conversation?
A prospective foster carer can have an excellent experience during the early recruitment stages. They feel welcomed. Someone listens to why they are considering fostering. Their questions are answered clearly. They begin to believe that fostering may be possible for them and their family. Then the conversation changes. They move from recruitment into assessment, and…
The First Foster Carer Conversation: Are You Responding Quickly—or Simply Losing People Faster?
As a senior fostering leader, you may already monitor how quickly prospective foster carers are contacted after making an enquiry. That matters. Someone who has taken the significant step of contacting a fostering service should not be left waiting several days for a response. Interest can fade, circumstances can change, and another provider may respond…
False Confidence in the Foster Carer Recruitment Pipeline!
As a senior fostering manager, your recruitment reports may look reasonably positive throughout the year. There are applicants in assessment. Initial visits are taking place. Panels are scheduled. The pipeline appears to be moving. But how much of that pipeline was created by this year’s recruitment activity—and how much was carried forward from the previous…
Do You Know Your True Foster Carer Recruitment Conversion Rate?
As a senior fostering leader, you will probably be told how many enquiries your service has generated. You may also receive updates on initial visits, applications, assessments and approvals. But do those figures tell you whether your recruitment process is actually working? A service can generate a high number of enquiries and still approve very…
I asked ChatGPT to analyse FosterWave FOUND Framework and FOSTER System to see how they could improve Foster Carer Recruitment
ChatGPT Analysis: FOSTER, FOUND and FosterWave — A Joined-Up Model for Foster Carer Recruitment Fostering providers do not generally suffer from a lack of recruitment activity. They run advertising campaigns, publish social media content, attend events, maintain websites, respond to enquiries and guide applicants through assessment. Considerable time, money and professional effort are already being…
I asked Copilot to review Fosterwave FOSTER system and FOUND Framework this is the answer if came back with.
Short answer: Together, these three systems — FosterWave™, The FOSTER System™, and the F.O.U.N.D Framework™ — give a fostering provider something they have never had before: a complete, end‑to‑end recruitment engine that fixes the three biggest weaknesses in UK fostering recruitment: ● Not enough of the right people reached ● Too many drop out during…