by 39-admin | Jul 26, 2024 | The Male Foster Carer Blog
Record keeping can be a bit of a drag cant it? However it is an essential part of your job as a Foster Carer and it serves to protect you in the case of an allegation. So what should you record and in how much detail? I always made a point of making some short notes...
by 39-admin | Jul 24, 2024 | The Male Foster Carer Blog
How do you deal with the difficult time when a long term placement moves on? It could be adoption, back to family or a number of other reasons that a young person leaves your care. I won’t lie, it’s difficult, and it doesn’t get any easier as time goes on, you just...
by 39-admin | Jul 19, 2024 | The Male Foster Carer Blog
With a new Government in place it will be interesting to see if there are any improvements in Social Care and Foster Care. With such a shortage of Foster Carers, at present, it needs some creative thinking to improve the way that Carers are treated. Most Independent...
by 39-admin | Jul 17, 2024 | The Male Foster Carer Blog
As a Foster carer there is a strong likelihood that your birth children will play a major part in the success or otherwise of a placement. As a married Foster Carer I had two birth children in situ which worked well with some placements and not so well with others. I...
by 39-admin | Jul 12, 2024 | The Male Foster Carer Blog
We had a meeting at our place to discuss the longer term plan for L and T. We were both in attendance as well as our Supervising Social Worker, the Local Authority Social Worker and the Health Visitor who was there to report on T’s and L’s health issues. Mum had been...
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