Alan Fisher Alan Fisher

Alan Fisher is freelance practitioner and consultant and has led the review of Inform’s fostering content.

The aim of fostering knowledge and practice hub is to address the issues that arise in everyday fostering practice and to empower busy practitioners and carers to find child-centred solutions through relationship-based social work.

All posts by Alan Fisher

The Independent Review Mechanism for foster carers

Making a success of Staying Put arrangements for young people

Parent and child fostering

The fostering panel

Contact with birth families in foster care

Foster care: transitions, beginnings and endings

Making the foster care placement: quick guide

Contact in foster care: quick guide

Fostering legislation, procedures and standards

Meeting the educational needs of children and young people in foster care