Responsibilities for professionals
Professionals should ensure children’s services know about all private fostering arrangements.
This includes a wide range of people who come in contact with children, including:
- teachers
- religious leaders
- doctors
- health visitors
Professionals should also encourage the child’s parent or carer to notify children’s services.
You will not be breaching confidentiality by notifying children’s services. Instead, you will be helping to safeguard a child.
For further information or to discuss the situation with a social worker, contact us:
- by phone: 0208 583 6662
- in person:
Intake Team West
4th Floor
Hounslow House
7 Bath Road
Hounslow
TW3 3EB
