Business strategies
BFfC Business Plan 2024-25 and three-year strategy 2023-26
BFfC Accessibility Strategy 2023-2025
BFfC Children in Care Sufficiency Strategy 2024-2026
BFfC Reading Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2023-2024 (PDF)
BFfC Quality Assurance Strategy August 2022
BFfC Care Leavers’ Strategy (Local Offer) (PDF)
Children Placed in the Reading Area (PDF)
SEND Strategy 2022-27 (Local Offer) (PDF)
Policies
BFfC Adoption Statement of Purpose 2024-25
BFfC Elective Home Education Policy & Procedure April 2024 (PDF)
BFfC Care Leavers’ Financial Policy (link to document on the Care Leavers’ page, Young People’s Zone)
BfFC Parents’ Guide to Elective Home Education updated 2023
BFfC Children Missing Education Policy March 2024
BFfC Fixed Penalty Notice Code of Conduct 2024 (relating to school attendance)
BFfC Independent Fostering Agency Privacy Notice (PDF) This is a guide for foster carers which states how we collect and use personal information.
BFfC Independent Fostering Agency Statement of Purpose 2024
BFfC Supporting Children with Medical Needs Policy April 2023
BFfC Modern Slavery Statement including Human Trafficking 2023-25
BFfC Private Fostering Policy & Practice Guidance 2023-2024
BFfC Private Fostering Statement of Purpose 2023-2024
BFfC Post-16 Education Transport Statement 2023-24
Subject Access Request Policy Nov 2022.pdf
Other Reports
BFfC Gender Pay Gap Report 2023
BFfC Ethnicity Pay Gap Report 2023
BFfC Workforce Equality and Diversity Profile Information 2021-22
Ofsted and CQC join Local Area SEND Inspection for Reading July 2021 (PDF)
(Report as web page which can be read using ReachDeck)
Reading’s Youth Justice Plan 2022-23
Publications
Leadership article by Di Smith, Board Chair, in Children & Young People Now July 2021