Evidence-informed Human-in-the-loop UK Form F aligned

Turn narratives into match-ready profiles — with cited rationale

Foster Match helps UK Local Authorities structure foster carer and child narratives into auditable profiles, then ranks compatibility using peer-reviewed research — while keeping statutory placement authority with caseworkers.

What we are — and what we are not

  • Decision support — shortlists with explainability and source citations, not autonomous placement.
  • Research-grounded — weights informed by Oosterman, Casey, NICE, and ECAP validation literature.
  • Integrates with CMS — complements CHARMS, Liquidlogic, Mosaic, and Link Maker.
  • Not a dating-app filter — hard gates for law and safety only; soft scores for relational fit.

Built for the people who place children safely

Foster Match sits between recruitment conversation and placement shortlist — making Form F Section B semantically searchable for the first time in most LA stacks.

Prospective foster carers

Conversational onboarding in your own words — no 200-field forms. Your narrative is structured by AI, then reviewed and approved by your assessing social worker.

Begin onboarding →

Placement & family finding teams

Ingest referrals, review extracted profiles in a structured queue, and (phase 2) request ranked shortlists with per-dimension breakdown and override controls.

Open caseworker portal →

How it works

A four-stage pipeline with mandatory human review at every decision point.

01

Narrative capture

Carer interview or caseworker document upload. Raw text stored with audit trail.

02

Structured extraction

LLM maps narrative to Form F–aligned JSON schema with confidence notes for uncertain fields.

03

Caseworker review

Assessing SW approves or corrects extracted fields before any profile enters matching.

04

Compatibility ranking

Hard legal gates → weighted needs score → semantic narrative similarity (phase 2).

Scientific foundation

Placement stability research consistently points beyond bedroom counts. Foster Match encodes what the literature says matters — with transparent weights and explicit not_a_placement_decision outputs.

Key evidence themes
  • Placement cascade — prior disruption predicts future breakdown (Oosterman et al.)
  • Clinical needs — externalising behaviour and trauma domains (CANS research)
  • Carer competency — training and support ecosystem (NICE, Casey)
  • Validated precedent — ECAP/KU ~22% stability improvement on 2,300 placements
Current phase: Ingestion & review (MVP)

Compatibility ranking ships in phase 2

Live today: narrative onboarding, AI extraction with confidence notes, caseworker review queue, and pgvector embeddings for future semantic matching.