For applications:
We are required under Fostering Services Regulations 2002 to keep your information for a minimum of 75 years from our last contact with the successful foster carer, after which time it will be destroyed
For fostering and adoption panel
We are required under the Disclosure of Adoption Information (Post- Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005 section 6 to keep your information for a minimum of 100 years after the date of adoption after which time it will be destroyed.
For payments
We are required under HMRC - Compliance Handbook Manual CH15400, to keep your information for a minimum of 6 years from the date the record was created, after which time it will be destroyed.