Blogs
An increasing number of children are being diagnosed with a behavioural disorder. But what exactly does that mean?
By Cathy Glass on July 9th, 2015
Good afternoon members, hope you’re looking forward to a lovely and hopefully sunny weekend. It’s been a few weeks since our last community round up, so this post is a bit longer than most.
By Aby Wojcik on June 26th, 2015
Foster Care Fortnight 2015 saw a tidal wave of fostering and orange has swept across the UK thanks to you and your foster carers.
By James Foyle on June 26th, 2015
Following my last blog on the importance of mealtimes I thought it might be useful to say a few words about some of the problems connected with eating. As foster carers many of the children we look after often have a poor relationship with food, binging or starving, hoarding food, or refusing the meal we have prepared and then taking food from the cupboard when no one is looking. We nurture our children and take pride in seeing them grow and thrive. Food is essential to sustain life and therefore an intrinsic part of that nurturing and love, so that if a child or young person has a poor relationship with food it is very worrying.
By Cathy Glass on June 15th, 2015
Our chief executive Kevin Williams draws Foster Care Fortnight to a close.<--break->..
By Foster Care Fortnight on June 14th, 2015
Melissa Green is director of operations at The Fostering Network.
If I had to pick a word that sums up what is happening in fostering at the moment I would choose ‘innovation’. This for me stands out over all the other words more prominent in the news: austerity, cuts, crisis, stretched services. It is not to say that these aren’t having an impact, we all know they are, but the response within fostering is not one of retrenching or reducing, but one of creativity and identifying new ways of ensuring the very best for young people in foster care.
By Foster Care Fortnight on June 13th, 2015
James Foyle is The Fostering Network's recruitment and retention consultant.
My barber's is just across the road from where I live. It’s run by a family of Kosovans who are a significant part of our local community.
By Foster Care Fortnight on June 12th, 2015
Speaking to the media and presenting to an audience is one part of the role of a Fostering Community Champions young champion. Project manager Sarah McEnhill provides an update on the Speaking Up and Speaking Out training.
By Daniel.Sinclairtfn on June 12th, 2015
My name is Jonny Hoyle, I am a care leaver, and a social worker. I also campaign for positive changes to be made within the care system with the charity A National Voice.
My story saw me fostered when I was younger, nearly adopted, returning to my birth family before being fostered again – initially for an emergency one night placement, but I didn’t leave for the next seven years!<--break->
By Foster Care Fortnight on June 12th, 2015
Joe Cudd is the Headteacher of Maes Y Morfa Community Primary School – a 21st Century learning community which serves one of the most deprived communities in Wales, with almost all of the children living in the most severely deprived wards of Carmarthenshire.
By Foster Care Fortnight on June 11th, 2015
