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The Department of Education published this Guidance in 2010 (Department of Education, 2010a). The Guidance sets out what is expected of local authorities regarding the temporary approval of a ‘connected person’ to care for a child looked after. It also covers the requirements of the full assessment of a family and friends foster carer (connected person), which should be completed within sixteen weeks, and in exceptional cases a further eight weeks can be allowed once the local authority's ‘nominated officer’ has consulted the fostering panel and the independent reviewing officer for the child.

The Guidance has a more generally useful Annex A, setting out the legal framework for: private fostering; family care (informal); family and friends foster care; unrelated foster care; residence orders; special guardianship orders and adoption. For each of these the following are considered: route into the caring arrangement; parental responsibility; approval basis; duration; placement supervision; review of placement; support services; financial support – entitlement; and financial support – discretionary (Department of Education, 2010a, pp41–3).