by 39-admin | Dec 7, 2021 | Blog
Foster Carer Profile Gill is a 54-year-old Black British woman of Caribbean descent. Gill is a single foster carer who is currently a foster carer for an Independent Fostering Agency. Gill has had two children (sibling group of 2, brother and sister aged 13 and 8,...
by 39-admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Blog
What helps you decide? When I first became a foster carer with Fostering UK, I really thought that I would only want to care for children short term, probably because I am a bit older, and my children had grown up. My assessing social worker talked me through the...
by 39-admin | Nov 23, 2021 | Blog
Foster carers make up a vital part of the care system and without them, lots of children and young people wouldn’t have a safe and secure place to stay. As you may know, children enter the care system when they’re unable to live with their birth parents or family...
by 39-admin | Nov 17, 2021 | Blog
There are lots of vulnerable children in the care system who need a place to stay whilst more permanent arrangements can be made for them and foster carers provide them with a safe home for however long they may need it. It goes without saying that becoming a foster...
by 39-admin | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog
I never realised how important happiness at work was until I became a foster carer. Although I would not really class my role as a foster carer as ‘work’, because it is so much more than that. Many of my friends talk about how finding satisfaction and happiness in...
by 39-admin | Nov 11, 2021 | Blog
Although the fostering community here in the UK is huge and there are tens of thousands of children currently living with a foster parent, there is still a major shortage of foster carers. The demand for foster homes is continually increasing and the care system needs...
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