Transitions

During our lives we go through a lot of transitions. Transitions are changes in our lives that move us from one stage to another, being single to being married, unemployed to working, living on own for the first time. Transitions are an important part of our lives and...

A day in the life

Imagine your own child laying in bed on a school morning it is 7am, your family start to get up, your child hears the noises everyone makes, and they know what those noises are, Dad going to the bathroom, mum starting to make breakfast, brothers &sisters start...

Self Care

What is self-care? Self-care is defined as the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one’s own physical and mental health. As looked after children and because of our past experiences and trauma we need to take care of ourselves or have help to do...

Foster or Looked After Child

After recently being asked to look at some questions on the on the Looked after child feedback forms to see if there any improvements that can be made. The first thing that I noticed was the wording, we were referred to as foster children. Personally, I do not like...

Trauma

What is trauma? How does it affect us? Can you recover? It is fair to assume that most looked after children suffer from trauma. Just the removal from our birth families home is traumatic then if you have to unfortunately move from placement to placement this adds to...
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