Andy Pirie
Andy Pirie is a founder of FosterScope and built the monthly measurement behind the FosterScope rankings. He’s a recruitment marketer with 20 years’ experience in recruitment marketing, in-house and on the supplier side, much of it in health and social care. He writes about how prospective foster carers find a local authority fostering service through Google and AI assistants, and what the monthly measurement shows.
Both founders have held executive roles in health and social care staffing, and we say so here because it’s the first thing a careful reader should check. Who pays us never changes a rank, and the method behind every rank is published in full.
What the September measurement shows
What the September 2026 rankings show about how findable local authority fostering services are, where the points are lost, and how to read a monthly rank.
The structured data most fostering services are missing
102 of 131 scored local authority fostering services carry none of the structured data we check for. What is missing and why it matters.