If you are a prospective foster carer going through the assessment process, you will be invited to attend a fostering panel. This purpose of the fostering panel is to review your fostering assessment and make a recommendation about whether or not to approve you as a foster carer, and the terms of your approval (such as the age and number of children you could care for).
The fostering panel will read your fostering assessment and will ask you and/or the assessing social worker any questions that will help them to make a recommendation about your suitability to foster and the terms of your approval. This recommendation will then be forwarded to the Agency Decision Maker who will make the final decision.