The Fostering Network has developed an exit interview toolkit for fostering services to capture all of the reasons why foster carers leave their services. This information can then be used by the service to improve practice and inform foster carer retention and recruitment strategies.
The toolkit created is free to use for members of The Fostering Network.
- Exit interview guide for fostering services: using the toolkit - a short report and ‘how to’ guide, designed to enable those who will use the toolkit to understand how our learning has contributed to the overall vision for the toolkit, and how to use the toolkit in practice.
- Exit interview discussion guide - explains the two-part process to completing an exit interview for foster carers, and a sample of questions to ask and areas to cover.
- Information for foster carers leaving their service - provides information on some of the actions those leaving their service or stopping fostering altogether need to undertake.
- Data collection tool - enables fostering services to collect data from the exit interview, which can be used to inform future practice and improve foster carer retention.