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Over 8,500 foster families are needed across the UK over the next year according to new figures published today (Monday 13 May) by the UK’s leading fostering charity.
Hollie George, 24, will receive The Fostering Network in Northern Ireland’s inaugural President’s Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to foster care. The award will be presented on Friday 17 May at Malone House, Belfast.
Reflecting on her experience of foster care from the age of nine, Hollie is clear her foster carers, Trevor and Heather, changed her future for the better.
In response to the article in today’s Daily Record highlighting a call for the requirement for prospective foster carers to have a spare room to be scrapped, Sara Lurie, director of The Fostering Network in Scotland said:
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Tuesday, 30 April, 2019 to Tuesday, 16 July, 201933 Rombourne, Cathedral Road Cardiff CF11 9HB
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Wednesday, 12 June, 2019 to Thursday, 13 June, 2019Rombourne 33 Cathedral Road Cardiff CF11 9HB
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Monday, 17 June, 2019 to Wednesday, 19 June, 2019The Training Suite, The Fostering Network Office, Glasgow