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Career Guidance Skills communication, collaboration and creativity S1.7 - obtaining information verbally S1.7.1 - interviewing Evaluate prospective foster parents
Description
Interview the potential foster parents, running an extensive background check related to their medical, financial or criminal records, paying visits to their homes to ensure safe living conditions for the child to be placed under their guardianship and drawing objective and informed conclusions.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Foster care support workerFoster care support workers assist and support mentally or physically abused children to be legally separated from their parents. They help them to recover by placing them in appro…
Optional for
- Social care workerSocial care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolesc…
Related skills
- Prepare youths for adulthood
- Communicate with social service users
- Customer service
- Assist social service users with physical disabilities
- Monitor service users’ health
- Apply holistic approach within social services
- Advocate for social service users
- Support social service users with specific communication needs
- Involve service users and carers in care planning
- Promote the safeguarding of young people
- Undertake risk assessment of social service users
- Work in a multicultural environment in health care
Last updated on February 18, 2026
