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The Department of Education published the Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards (NMS) in 2011 under Section 23 of the Care Standards Act 2000. The NMS set out the expectations for the standards that must be met by fostering services (Department of Education, 2011a; Dunster, 2011; Lawson, 2011a). There are 31 Standards, which include child-focused Standards (Standards 1–12), as well as Standards for the fostering service (Standards 13–31). The Standards for the fostering service include some subjects covered in the following chapters of this book including: recruiting and assessing foster carers (Standard 13); fostering panels (Standard 14); learning and development of foster carers (Standard 20); supervision and support of foster carers (Standard 21); handling allegations (Standard 22); and placements plans and their review (Standard 31).