New Year Honours: MBEs for Bedford foster parents

A couple from Bedford who have devoted 25 years to fostering children, many with physical or learning disabilities, have been made MBEs in the New Year Honours list.

Derek, 69, and Hazel Phillips, 67, have fostered about 25 children since they started in 1988.
Mrs Phillips said they decided to provide permanent foster care until their children become adults.
She praised her friends and family for supporting their work. "We couldn't have done it without them," she said.

'Different life'
The couple were made MBEs for services to children and families and their "total dedication to fostering and supporting vulnerable young people". Mrs Phillips said she hoped the honour and publicity would encourage others to consider taking up fostering. "To become a foster carer you must be someone who is prepared to open yourself up to this life and it is very different from ordinary family life," she said. "If you do the training and find this is something you can do, then you should do it and you will get a lot of support."

Another person appointed MBE was Roger Merton, 72, of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, for services to London Youth (the Federation of London Youth Clubs), football and the community in Hertfordshire.
He has spent 50 years supporting children and people with disabilities through football.

Others honoured are Irene Heathcote, 63, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and Mabel Matthew, 74, from Luton, who were awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM). Mrs Heathcote has received the BEM for services to arts and crafts with Quilts4London which gave ordinary people the opportunity to become involved in the London 2012 Olympic Games by making pennants. Mrs Matthew receives the award for services to the St Kitts and Nevis Friends Association, which she has been involved in since 1984, and to the community in Luton.
source: BBC

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Foster children will be able to remain with foster carers

Foster children will be able to remain with foster carers  following a £40 million injection of funding and a new legal requirement on local authorities to provide support.
All children emerging from the care system will be able to remain with their foster carer families after they turn 18 following a £40 million funding injection and a new legal requirement on councils to provide support, which builds on previous initiatives to strengthen the mechanisms in place for care leavers.
Children’s  Minister Edward Timpson announced this week that he intends to place a new legal requirement  on children’s services to provide monetary support for every young person who wants to remain in their foster placement until their 21st birthday – allocating local authorities £40 million over the next 36 months to effect the necessary changes in time.
Edward Timpson, who grew up in a foster family with parents who fostered, feels that giving children and young people already vulnerable from being in care the right sort of support just as they are leaving care is crucial to their life chances.
A significant number of local authorities already give young people the chance  to stay but with little financial incentives, it can be testing for the foster families. Once enacted the new initiative will mean all councils will have to follow the national standard and we are allocating £40 million towards the costs.
This is a progressive  reform to the wider package of support and help  for care leavers, including changes to the procedures so eligible young people remain in care until they are ready to move out and much more effective financial help for young people leaving care at 18.
This will enable up to 10,000 young people leaving stable and secure foster placements  to transition from fostering to independence when they are ready, rather than when the corporate parent  requirements  them to.
Children in care usually have much lower educational attainment and are more likely than the general population to be out of education, work or training.
The initiative announced this week  is the latest in a series of changes the Coalition has  improved achievement  for children and young people leaving care.
Working in partnership  with Children’s Services, local authorities and third sector organisations , the Government feels it has effected the following changes :

• launched the ‘Charter for care leavers’ – an undertaking between councils  and young people emerging from care – which outlines the support they should expect  up to the age of 25, with many Children’s Services Departments signed up
• Brought in the Savings Account Initiative  for all children in care  with tens of thousands of accounts now being opened
• produced  the cross-government  strategy for care leavers, which holds together coherently the Government plan from housing to health care services, and from youth justice  to educational providers – and to help care leavers to live self- sufficiently once they have left their foster home
• Engaged with  all children’s services focussing on dramatic improvement to financial support for care leavers which has achieved a huge increase in  the number of local authorities now paying £2,000 or more through the Setting Up Home Allowance
• improved public transparency  by publishing an annual set, outlining statistics on care leavers’ educational and work status, and from this October 2013, Ofsted’s  children’s service inspection framework will focus more specifically  on the achievement and attainment of care leavers
• Brought in the pupil premium plus for all children in the care system from the first day of the fostering arrangement , raising the the school’s allowance  by £1,000
• Required every local authority  to put in place a ‘virtual school head’ – a professional tsar who campaigns for the education of looked-after children and acts as their overarching head in a corporate parenting capacity

Source : www.gov.uk

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Fostering - Ex-Liverpool star and foster parent Mark Wright in campaign

4 November 2013 Last updated at 19:12 GMT

The former Liverpool FC captain Mark Wright has launched a major campaign to recruit 10,000 new foster carers across the country.

Mark and his wife Sue have been fostering for five years, with the pair helping to promote the many rewards of becoming a foster carer.

During a launch at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium, he said the UK 10K scheme "will transform lives".

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Armagh foster care girl in Dame Kelly Holmes mentor scheme

24 October 2013 Last updated at 06:23

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Christina Lester met Dame Kelly Holmes at the end of the six-month mentoring scheme

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An Armagh teenager who has been in care most of her life is one of 20 children to complete a UK-wide mentoring scheme headed by Dame Kelly Holmes.

Despite her difficult background, Christina Lester has become head girl of City of Armagh High School.

The teenager has made a video which aims to challenge negative perceptions of foster care children.

"I've gained a lot of confidence through this programme and I'm just a happier person," she said.

"Now I actually think that I can do a lot more things with my life and I realise that you just have to work for it.

"I'm just so glad I got on it and I'm really proud that I did."

The six-month programme, organised by education charity AQA and the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust, selects 20 teenagers who have encountered challenging personal circumstances and pairs them with athlete mentors.

With their mentor's help, they work on social action project in their local community to boost their confidence and personal skills.

Christina was mentored on the programme by former England hockey player Charlotte Hartley.

source: BBC News

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Adoption: Gay adoption 'confusion' for NI couples

There is uncertainty over the future of gay adoption in Northern Ireland, as Chris Buckler reports

A gay couple have said they went to England to adopt because of confusion over the law in Northern Ireland.

The Court of Appeal ruled that legislation which prevented gay, lesbian and unmarried couples from adopting children in NI was unlawful. It was the only part of the UK where the policy existed.

However, Stormont's health minister plans to go to the Supreme Court to try to overturn that decision and get the ban reinstated.

John Davis and Jason Scorer, who live in County Antrim, had hoped to adopt children from Northern Ireland, but with uncertainty over the legal position they were advised to consider other options.

"We were very lucky that our original social worker in Northern Ireland had done a lot of homework before she came, to say that we could not move things any further forward," said John, who has lived in Northern Ireland for 20 years.

"The problem is a lot of people may not be aware there is another option."

They contacted adoption and fostering charity PACT (Parents and Children Together).

It helped the couple, who are in a civil partnership, go through the process in England with the aim of giving children from there a home in Northern Ireland.

"There are children waiting in the system (in Northern Ireland) to find families but, unfortunately, we were not allowed to go down that route," said Jason.

"And that is to the hardship of the children who are here."

They adopted two boys at the start of the summer and they started primary school last month.

"They are getting loved, they are getting looked after and they are getting cared for," said John.

They say they know of other gay couples from Northern Ireland who are now considering going through the adoption process elsewhere in the UK, because the issue is still being debated in the courts.

The Department of Health at Stormont confirmed that Health Minister Edwin Poots has now applied to the Supreme Court for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision that the ban was discriminatory.

And he insisted the issue was about stability not sexuality.

"Unlike other parts of the UK... we have a strong list of adoptive parents who want to take on adopted children," said Mr Poots.

"I think we should be cautious about changing the system which actually provides the stability those children need.

"It is not a human right to adopt a child for either a mixed-sex couple or a same-sex couple."

Gay and lesbian groups, as well as organisations like BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering), have criticised the minister's decision to continue fighting the issue in the courts.

But he said surveys had shown support for his position.

"What I look at it is where the Northern Ireland public are on these issues and what is in the best interests of the children," he said.

"There is a lot of public opposition to it."

In Belfast, there were people with strong views on both sides of the argument.

Those against gay couples having the right to adopt argued that children needed both male and female role models and some claimed it was against their religious beliefs.

However, many said that the only important thing was providing a stable home for a child, irrespective of whether the couple were married or their sexuality.

"You could argue all day about the gay thing - whether it is right that someone who is gay should be gay," says John Davis.

"But I believe it goes back to the loving, caring environment and stability that you can give these children, that they have not had up to this point."

Source: BBC NI

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Foster care myths threaten crisis, claims charity

Misconceptions about fostering can deter would-be foster carers from coming forward, suggests a poll.

Myths about foster care are threatening a crisis in the service in the UK, a charity claims.

Some 10% of adults surveyed for Action for Children did not know fostering meant providing temporary care, confusing it with adoption.

And a large proportion believed those aged above 55, gay people, and men were barred from becoming foster carers.

“There is an urgent need to tackle these misconceptions,” said Darren Johnson, of Action for Children.

Figures produced by another fostering organisation have suggested at least 9,000 new foster families will be needed in the UK by the end of the 2013 to cope with record numbers of children in care.

Urgent need

The Fostering Network says there are now a record 61,700 children in foster care and with 13% of foster carers leaving the service each year there is an urgent need to recruit.

The Action for Children survey asked more than 2,000 adults about their attitudes to fostering.

One in three believed wrongly that you could not foster if you lived in rented accommodation.

A similar number were unaware that foster carers received financial support and wrongly thought they would be barred from foster care if they were not in full-time employment.

Many people also thought certain groups were barred from fostering – with 54% thinking over-55s were excluded; 16% that men could not foster and one in three that gay people would not be accepted.

An overwhelming proportion of those surveyed (96%) were unaware of the numbers in care in the UK – some 91,000 children.

‘Myth busting’

The charity has launched a myth-busting guide to fostering, hoping to encourage more people to provide temporary homes to children with family problems.

Mr Johnson said fear of rejection often led to delays in would-be foster carers volunteering themselves.

He added: “With myths preventing people from coming forward and the public not knowing the true extent of just how many children are currently in care, we are on course for a crisis.

“This could be prevented by helping people to understand that in the majority of cases they can foster and have a lot to offer a young person in care.”

Jackie Sanders, of the Fostering Network, said: “Fostering services face a big challenge every year, recruiting thousands of foster carers to replace those who leave and to provide homes for growing numbers of children coming into care.

“A wide pool of carers is needed to help fostering services find the right foster home for every child, first time.

“It’s important to bust myths about who can apply to foster, but it’s just as important to outline the skills that foster carers need, and to be clear about where there are current gaps.

“Across the UK there is currently a particular need to find people who can care for sibling groups, disabled children and teenagers.”

A DfE spokesman said: “Foster carers are the unsung heroes of the care system. They make an invaluable difference to vulnerable children – offering them routine, stability and loving homes.

“We want people from all walks of life to come forward to foster which is why are making it easier for them to do so. We are spending £750,000 to help councils recruit and retain a range of foster carers and have invested an extra £3.7 million to support vulnerable families and those already fostering.”

 Source: BBC 2013

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Do you want to foster? Questions to ask fostering agencies

Fostering Agency Support

All agencies will say their support is brilliant. But in reality what does this mean? Support is about you being given the knowledge to be a skilful and confident carer who provides the best care and enjoys being a foster carer. Suport is about being in touch with you on a regular basis, both by phone and visits to your home to discuss any concerns and for you to be able to get extra support if necessary.

All agencies will claim to deliver 24 hour support, seven days a week, 365 days per year. In extreme circumstance are they able to get support out to you quickly? You need to be confident that they are able to deliver what they say they can provide. Ask, how local their support is.

Fostering agencies operate a support system. When circumstances demand, a carer can access a local duty officer, a senior social worker or a Director depending on the nature of the emergency.

Ask to speak to foster carers from the agencies you have contacted, ask them what the support is really like and any
examples of how it has worked for them or if they have been let down.

Support should also include Carer Support Groups when agencies arrange groups of carers to get together to share
experiences and offer mutual support. Ask how frequent they are, how are they organised and what the groups discuss.
Properly organised and run, these groups can be an invaluable resource for a carer. If not they quickly become poorly
attended and a waste of time.

Some agencies will also run specialist support groups focused for example on Men who Foster and Children who Foster for the birth children of foster carers who also have a part to play in the fostering task. The best fostering agencies see support groups as invaluable. They are a great forum for allowing agencies to understand what issues currenty concern foster carers, enabling them to react in the best way. Most agencies will also have a calendar of social events for foster carers and the looked after children.

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We hope that you have found this useful and that it has given you a better insight about how to find out if an agency is
right for and your family.

Hopefully you will decide to take the next step and if so, we at Simply Fostering would like to thank you for becoming a
foster carer and helping the most vulnerable children in our society.

We value all foster carers, you are special people.

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Foster care – Medway children’s care service ‘inadequate’

Medway’s service for children in care has been rated as inadequate in a report by the education watchdog.

Ofsted’s inspectors said there were 400 looked-after children and 209 with “care-leaver” status when the inspection was carried out in July.

The report highlighted delays in the completion of health assessments and a shortage of nurses. Medway Council said it was making “significant progress” and improvements would continue.

Ofsted inspectors said following a previous inspection in January, work in Medway had focused on ensuring all children were safe.

‘Foster carers supported’

The report said: “However, many changes have been recent and have not yet had the opportunity to impact, so deficits within services for looked-after children remain.

“Inspectors saw no looked-after child at immediate risk of harm. “Overall, outcomes for children and young people looked after are poor in relation to their emotional health and well being, their educational achievement and continued opportunities for education, employment and training.”

The inspectors rated the service’s “capacity to improve” as adequate, saying the local authority was “actively addressing inadequacies”.

The report praised Medway’s record in avoiding changes in children’s placements, saying a “high number” remained for more than two years.

‘More social workers’

The report highlighted poor quality of information on children coming into care. Councillor Mike O’Brien, lead portfolio holder for children’s services at the Conservative-run council, said: “We are making significant progress.

“The council brought in a completely new top team when it realised that much work needed to be done to improve this area and we are pleased that Ofsted have recognised this.”

The council said it was recruiting more social workers, a new director of social services and a new service manager for children in care.

Directory of children’s services Barbara Peacock, who joined last September, said “There is a lot of work to do, and we are clear on that fact, but Ofsted acknowledges we are heading in the right direction.

Councillor Adam Price, the Labour group’s spokesman for children’s services, said: “I’m deeply worried.

“We’re hearing that no child is under immediate risk, but it is worrying that there seems to be poor quality in terms of information on children when they come into care and also go out of care.”  He said the authority was having to go as far as Ireland to recruit social workers.

Source: BBC News 2013
Source: OFSTED 

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Liverpool City Council fails to give adequate support to 340 carers

Date Published: 01/08/13

Around 340 carers in the Merseyside area will have their allowances backdated after an investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) discovered Liverpool City Council had been underpaying them for years.

The investigation was brought about after a woman, who had been looking after her toddler nephew following a domestic violence incident, complained that the council was not paying her the correct benefits.

She claimed that the council did not consider her nephew a ‘looked after child’. As a result, she missed out on the appropriate support and financial payments that would have been available to her if the council had accepted that she was a family and friends foster carer, and the care she provided was not a ‘private arrangement’ between her and the child’s parents.

Some months later, and with the help of Liverpool City Council, the woman obtained a Special Guardianship Order for her nephew. And, while the council did pay her the Special Guardianship Allowance, it deducted Child Benefit from the amount she received despite the government recommending this should not happen when people also receive Income Support. 

She also said that the amount she was receiving as a special guardian was lower than other foster carers in the area were awarded.

Investigating the individual case, the Local Government Ombudsman discovered a wider problem in the Liverpool area, affecting 340 carers city-wide.

It found that the council was failing to pay those foster carers who look after children aged 0 to four-years-old at the National Minimum Fostering Allowance set by government each year, and also failed to pay the Special Guardianship Allowance (a separate benefit for carers who have parental responsibility for the children in their care) at the same rate as its foster carers.

Nigel Ellis, Executive Director for Investigations at the LGO, said:

“Many councils struggle to recruit carers to look after children who find themselves – for whatever reason – unable to be looked after by their parents.

“So it is only fair that these people, who do such a good job of giving children the chance of family life, get the benefits and allowances they rightly deserve. These allowances are not ‘pay’ – they are used to clothe and feed the children being looked after.

“I’m pleased to say that Liverpool City Council has quickly accepted it is at fault and has agreed to backdate the benefits to both the complainant and the 340 other carers affected. I hope this swift response will go some way to alleviate the trouble the underpayment may have caused.

”I would urge other local authorities to look at their own procedures to ensure that carers in their areas are not experiencing the same problems that those in Liverpool have encountered.”

The LGO has recommended that the original complainant receive backdated allowances of £10,912 and be provided with notification about the rate at which she will be paid the Special Guardianship Allowance. Liverpool City Council has also agreed to pay that allowance without the deduction of Child Benefit while she is in receipt of Income Support.

Liverpool City Council has also agreed to carry out a review of its practice of deducting Child Benefit from those on Income Support in receipt of Special Guardianship Allowance.

The council has agreed to backdate payment of its Special Guardianship Allowance at the same rate as its Fostering Allowance rate from April 2010, affecting around 146 people. It will also pay all foster carers, looking after children under four, the Fostering Allowance in line with or above National Minimum Fostering Rates from April 2013 and will backdate the underpayment to April 2011, affecting an additional 194 carers.

Source: Local Gov Ombudsman

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Fostering Agency Parallel Parents' Leaflet criticised

Fostering Agency Leaflet

The leaflet has been delivered to council housing tenants in Leeds
A fostering organisation has been criticised for encouraging council tenants to avoid paying a spare room subsidy by giving a child a home.

Parallel Parents leaflets which have been delivered in Leeds say “Avoid the bedroom tax. Help change a child’s life. Become a foster carer”.

Carers are exempt from recent benefit cuts for tenants with spare rooms. Parallel Parents said the use of the leaflets was just one recruitment strategy.

‘Truly appalling’
Carole O’Keefe, who received one, said: “I find [it] absolutely abhorrent. “I wouldn’t consider foster care simply to pay my bedroom tax or to avoid the bedroom tax.

“Perhaps people who are desperate not to be evicted from their homes, they might well be the wrong sort of people. If financial gain was the sole motivation the applicant would not be approved”

British Association for Adoption and Fostering

Susan Stacey, a foster carer from Bradford, said she was “appalled” by the leaflet.

She said: “Foster carers must be dedicated to protecting and nurturing young people and not doing it for financial gain. “If anyone thinks that foster care is about filling a bedroom they are badly advised – it is the most stressful and yet the most rewarding thing l have ever done in my life, where the child always comes first.

“If l worked for the agency involved l would seriously consider looking for another agency, as their recruitment policy is well and truly appalling.”

Foster carers in the UK will continue to receive rent payments towards an “additional room” as long as they have fostered a child or become an approved foster carer in the previous 12 months, the government has said.

In a statement Parallel Parents, an independent organisation based in Stockport, said the leaflet was “just one recruitment strategy, a way of encouraging people to become foster parents”.

The British Association for Adoption and Fostering said a foster carer would only be approved if they “fully appreciate they are providing a child-focused service”.

It said: “If financial gain was the sole motivation the applicant would not be approved.”

Source: BBC 2013

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Fostering – Adoption: PM unveils ‘foster to adopt’ plan

Babies need a stable loving home as early as possible, ministers say
New-born babies being taken into care should be fostered by people who want to adopt them, the prime minister has said.
David Cameron has said the law in England will be changed to encourage more councils to do this - so more babies can find a loving home earlier. He says it is "shocking" that so many babies taken in to care at one month wait 15 months to be adopted.
The government has pledged to simplify and speed up the adoption process.
It wants babies to be placed with prospective adoptive parents before the courts have decided to remove them permanently from their natural parents.
This is already being done by some councils, such as Harrow, which is working with the Coram children's charity. In some cases, there might be disappointment for those trying to adopt, because the courts might eventually decide to return the child to its natural parents.

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Foster carers - Changing your current fostering agency

Foster carers decide to change fostering agencies for a variety of reasons. Foster carers who have transferred their approval with our help have told us:

• That they had not been properly supported
• Their fostering fees and allowances were not competitive
• That not enough training or respite had not been offered to them.

Some foster carers told us that they experienced long periods of time without a child placed. As a foster carer, you are free to choose the fostering agency you foster for. We provide a free fostering agency transfer service for foster carers. Our qualified social workers are experienced in working with carers who would like to transfer from their current agency.
Find out more about your rights, how we help you to find the best fostering agency for you and your family and how we act on your behalf in confidence, to transfer agency.

Free transfer and agency matching service

London Fosterinf provides a free and confidential service available to approved foster carers who want to transfer to another fostering agency. As other people do in most jobs, foster carers may decide that it is time to move on and to change to another agency who may offer better support, allowances, training, respite and choice of placements.
If you make an enquiry, we assess your situation then identify a number of suitable fostering agencies for you to choose from.
If you decide to use our service and have children in placement at the time of transfer, we will pay you an annual fee of £1000 for each child as long as you are registered with the new agency and the child/children remain placed with you.
We are able to provide this extra funding because of the agreed contracts we have with over 60 fostering agencies who donate part of their ‘profit element’ with us and who are commited to supporting our foster carer’s transfer service.
We simply share the donation we receive with the transferring foster carer(s) who often choose to increase their level of respite care or have an extra family holiday which helps to reduce the stresses of fostering.
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Foster carers awarded MBEs

A Flintshire couple have been awarded with MBEs in the Queen’s birthday honours list after more than a quarter of a century as foster parents.

During that time Alice and David Oldfield from Shotton have looked after more than 100 children.
The couple, both 75, say they have no intention of giving up fostering “as long as we can move around”. Meanwhile, Martin Walter Shaw, from Anglesey, receives an OBE for services to the National Bee Unit.
Mr Oldfield said the honour came as a “complete surprise” but they were both “very, very pleased”. We didn’t understand it, we felt some people were more deserving… but we’re very, very pleased”

“We try to keep in touch with them (their foster children) when they leave although they are spread out in different parts of the country by now,” said Mr Oldfield. “They visit us though, with their own children, and it’s rewarding to see that they’ve done good.”

Mr and Mrs Oldfield, who have four of their own children, decided to give fostering “a go” over 25 years ago. “It’s something we both agreed to do,” Mr Oldfield said. “We take an interest in them, it’s not just a job.

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Fostering - Government package to help attract and retain more foster carer

Fostering – The government has unveiled a new package of support to help local authorities attract and retain more foster carers from a wider range of backgrounds.

Speaking at the National Fostering Agency’s annual conference, the Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson announced a new package of support totalling £750,000 which will be used to:

• provide Fostering Network with £250,000 over 2 years to boost local recruitment of foster carers and help councils share good practice nationally
• provide intervention programmes for looked-after children and those on the edge of care and custody and their families
• fund 3 partnerships between local authorities and independent fostering services to explore new ways of recruitment and retaining a wider group of foster carers – including working professionals and those with the skills and experience to care for children with more complex needs

Today’s announcement will support local authorities in recruiting foster carers who have the specialist skills to care for vulnerable children with different needs – giving them the support and stable environment they need to thrive and reach their full potential.

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Foster Care Fortnight

The Fostering Network has kicked off their annual Foster Care Fortnight to highlight the need for 9,000 new foster carers across the UK to meet the need of vulnerable children and young people. Loving homes are always needed to help provide security and stability to some of the most disadvantaged young people. 

If you are thinking about becoming a foster carer, Could You Foster? (a page on the Fostering Network's Website) provides information on what fostering is and the type of children that need fostering. You can also find a fostering service near you to make an application or find out more about fostering in your area. 

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Crisis for vulnerable children

Every day in the UK there are around eight thousand vacancies for new foster carers. This shortfall reduces the chances of finding the most suitable foster carer for each child or young person who need a place of safety. Poorly matched fostering placements suffer more disruption and placement breakdowns. Any increase in foster carer numbers would improve children's chances of successful foster care experiences.

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Fostering Children - Foster Care News

Up to date news and information about fostering children in the UK.

Find out all about fostering, how to apply to become a foster carer, the assessment process, allowances and the support provided.

Use our free 'Foster Carer Enquiry - Fostering Agency Matching Service' to help find the best Fostering Agencies with vacancies where you live.

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Welcome and start thinking about fostering!

There are over seven hundred  Fostering Agencies  accross the UK, it's confusing. Unfortunately, about 15% of foster carers give up fostering or transfer to another fostering agency because the fees and support on offer was not good enough.

I provide a free foster carer support service for people interested in becoming foster carers and earning an allowance working from home. I can help you to save time and costly mistakes by finding the best fostering agencies for you and your family.

There are vacancies for foster carers in your area. Find out about how to apply and the fees and payments available to foster carers.

Interested in fostering children? Then I would very much like to hear from you!

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