'We have learnt so much' - caring for children with FASD
FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) affects children in care disproportionately, but it's little understood.
Contact during lockdown: A follow up interview with Professor Beth Neil
Daisy Elliott, our policy and research officer, follows up with Professor Beth Neil about her research into facilitating contact during lockdown.
'I fully intend to do something brilliant' - care experienced and driven to make change
My name is Elle. I am a 19 year old, currently in a ‘staying put’ arrangement and living the lockdown life.
Educating Key Stage 3
Educating at home poses a challenge to many families currently.
A message from our director in Wales
Colin Turner is the Director of The Fostering Network in Wales and himself a foster carer. He has written this blog for FCF20.
Fostering during lockdown - a daughter's perspective
Caitlin is one of our Young Advocates in Scotland. Her family have been fostering for eleven years.
A Foster Care Fortnight message from our director in Scotland
Sara Lurie, director of The Fostering Network in Scotland, reflects on the challenges that the coronavirus has posed to fostering, and how foster families and the children and young people in their care have risen to those challenges.
England projects helping in lockdown
Almost three quarters of the children in care looked after away from home are in foster care, and that is one reason why raising awareness of the phenomenal contribution of the fostering community is so important. And that’s where Foster Care FortnightTM comes in…
Ambassadors for fostering
Emma Newey has been the recruitment and engagement officer for the fostering team at Bury Council for eight years. In this blog Emma writes about their ambassador scheme and how it benefits the service, foster carers and children in foster care.
On a journey together – fostering teenagers
When Walt became a foster carer in 2016 for Islington Fostering, fostering had been playing on his mind for quite some time.