Foster Carer Exit Interview Toolkit

The Fostering Network received funding from The Exilarch’s Foundation to develop an exit interview toolkit for fostering services to capture all the reasons 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 exit interview toolkit is free to download and use for our members. The Fostering Network can also provide a service to undertake foster carer exit interviews on behalf of your fostering service. 

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions regarding the exit interview toolkit. 

The Exit Interview Toolkit

The toolkit consists of four parts:   

  • Exit interview guide for fostering services: using the toolkit - This is 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 - This 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 - This guide for foster carers provides information on some of the actions those leaving their service or stopping fostering altogether need to undertake or, in the instance of tax returns for example, continue to do
  • Data collection tool - This table enables fostering services to collect data from the exit interview, which can be used to inform future practice and improve foster carer retention.