A Fostering Journey 18

Our short term, sibling group placement wasn’t short term at all. In fact it became one of our longest placements. The good thing is that we were involved in all the meetings to discuss the placements, so nothing was agreed without our say so. Mum had an addiction and...

And The Winner Is…

I had been looking forward to my first formal black-tie event for a number of weeks. The event was the first ever Fostering UK awards ceremony held at the Holiday Inn Hotel Reading. Preparations had begun in our family a couple of weeks before when my foster dad and I...

A Fostering Journey 16

Three placements now under our belts and they were all under 5 years old, which we were happy with. We had talked about moving for a long time and we decided that now would be a good time to upgrade and buy somewhere bigger. The question was where? We spoke to our...

A Fostering Journey 15

We had now completed our first 2 placements for our Local Authority and were feeling like proper Foster carers. We had been told, during training, to expect gaps between placements but we had not had any so far. Two days after the twins went home we had a call from a...

A Fostering Journey 14

Our first placement had moved onto their adoptive parents and we were dealing with the emotional aftermath of separation. It wasn’t easy, we had cared for the baby since birth, pretty much, and with all the feeding and changing, late nights, it was hard to simply say...
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