Foster Care fortnight has started!! At Fostering Connections we are trying to raise awareness of the need for Foster Carers throughout the UK. Our website has lots of useful information for anyone who is considering a career as a foster carer but it’s also great to hear real life experiences. Catch Debbie Douglas’ blog: http://www.baaf.org.uk/blog/debbie-douglas-not-foster-carer-were-foster-family
Foster Care Fortnight is almost here, this is a perfect time to think seriously about whether you have the skills, life experience and dedication to become a Foster Carer. Thousands of foster carers are needed throughout the country to ensure vulnerable children are able to experience a stable and secure family upbringing.
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Many of the thousands of children who come into care have experienced significant difficulties in their lives and have more problems to overcome than most; they may offer a real challenge, both emotionally and physically to their foster carers.
It is often the most most damaged and challenging young people who struggle to find stable foster placements. […]
There are many misconceptions about the qualifications needed to become a foster carer. The first is that there are any qualifications!! Foster carers need to have a spare room, endless patience and dedication ….a good sense of humour helps as well!!
One of the biggest misconceptions is that only married, heterosexual couples can apply. This is simply not true…… applications to become foster […]
‘If all the children in care in the UK today were brought together they would fill the Olympic Stadium in London. The UK’s foster carers look after most of these children, almost 62,000 on any one day. And with the need to recruit 9,000 new foster carers across the UK during 2013, the Fostering […]
The recent Care Inquiry has highlighted that the care system too often breaks not makes relationships for children in care. Frequent placement moves often result in important relationships being broken and lost needlessly. The care system needs to consider all options, including foster care and all possible options are afforded the same priority in terms of funding. This resonates […]
Has anyone logged on to the Manchester Fostering Community Care Children’s Services Blog? It’s full of interesting observations/ articles about topical issues affecting the provision of good quality fostering and foster carer services for children. Highly recommended!
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/childrens-services-blog/
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Interesting article in Community Care Fostering Manchester today regarding support for existing foster carers and those in fostering. You can read the whole article here http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/childrens-services-blog/2013/04/existing-foster-carers-need-to-be-supported-before-we-can-recruit-more.html
Manchester Fostering Community Care will be holding an event on 23 April 2013 to discuss the ways in which foster carers and those in fostering can be better supported to manage the increasingly challenging behaviours of some of the children coming into foster care as a result of Local Authority fostering budget cuts and how to improve the retention […]