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Discoveries

Fostering Blog My friend Susan (name changed and permission given) and I fully appreciate the importance of looking after ourselves. This week I spent two days with Susan, who I met two years ago shortly after she became a foster carer. We were able to reflect that we...
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Failing Care

FOSTERING BLOG. I feel so strongly that successful care leavers ( who are emotionally damaged by trauma ) having been nurtured in a secure and loving home have the basic human right to a family life…… and some level of certainty about where they will be...
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Honeymoon

Expectations Bog I had cause to consider the behaviour of our very settled, compliant young people, during a discussion with them this week. They described some of the things that they had got up to in their pre-fostering days. It was enlightening that they related...
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Covid Blues

More Covid. Michael was unable to return to school on Monday and needed a further two days off, due to a covid outbreak in his year group bubble. He told us that school just feels very different to pre-Covid days . He has spoken on several occasions about how little...
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Leaving Care

Fostering Blog. I feel so strongly that successful care leavers ( who are emotionally damaged by trauma ) having been nurtured in a secure and loving home have the basic human right to a family life…… and some level of certainty about where they will be...
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