POINT 15/100 Do Your First-Contact Staff Understand Why People Consider Fostering?
If your first contact staff are not properly trained they may push away 50% of your prospective Foster Carers
Point 14/100 Have You Turned Your Audience Map Into a Recruitment Territory Plan?
Blanket advertising is not delivering sufficiency, turn your marketing into a Recruitment Territory Plan
Point 13/100 Does Your Data Show Where Your Future Foster Carers Might Be?
Do you use easily available data to tell you where best to find your next Foster Carers?
Point 12/100 Are You Recruiting Foster Carers in Clusters — or Wherever Enquiries Appear?
Do you aim to recruit Foster Carers in Clusters or just from wherever they apply from?
Point 11/100 Which Sufficiency Gaps Are You Actually Trying to Fill?
Recruiting 10 foster carers in the wrong place with the wrong skills does not solve your sufficiency issues
POINT 10/100 — What Happens When the Plan Stops Working?
Senior Fostering Leaders should be able to see when Foster Carer Recruitment is off track in real time not retrospectively.