The Care Inspectorate have been collecting some information on foster carer de-registrations from 2015 and according to their Fostering and Adoption Statistical Bulletin 2016-17 , between 1 Jan 2016 and 31 Dec 2016, 382 foster carer households de-registered (9% of all registered at the start of the year) compared with 318 de-registrations in 2015 (8% of all registered at the start of the year).