A Fostering Journey 9

Support is absolutely essential for a Foster Carer regardless of your experience and the amount of young people who have been in your care. Essentially there are three main types of support you can use as a Foster Carer, there is your Supervising Social Worker (SSW),...

A Fostering Journey 7

The pros and cons of what age to group to Foster can be very complex. As a Foster Carer, either now or when married, I always kept as wide an age range as possible, basically 0-18. I have fostered young people with special needs and mother and parent placements. So...

A Fostering Journey 6

We are told that this is national shortage of Foster Carers. This has been the case since I started out my Fostering career in the 90s. So why is there a shortage? Why don’t people want to Foster? There seems to be a misconception on what is involved in Fostering...

A Fostering Journey 5

Is being a Foster Carer a career? Yes of course it is. If you think about Fostering how do you see it? A job, a vocation or a way to earn money? It’s a difficult question to answer, talking about money is still considered a bit of a taboo subject to most within...
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