The standards have been introduced as part of the Every Child Matters agenda, drawn up after the Laming Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie, a privately fostered child.
The demand for action was reinforced by the discovery that 300 African boys, many believed to have been privately fostered, went missing from London school registers over a three-month period in 2001.
Currently there are no accurate statistics of the number of privately fostered children in the UK as there has not been a system for registering them.
Barbara Hutchinson, deputy chief executive of the British Association of Adoption and Fostering, said, 'These new regulations must be properly publicised to ensure everyone involved in the care of privately fostered children knows what their responsibilities are.'
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