Blogs
Sarah Jones is a foster carer with Foster Swansea and a foster carer ambassador with The Fostering Network. Sarah was invited to speak at the National Fostering Framework conference in March. In this blog Sarah shares the key parts of her speech.
In this blog, Sarah Morgan, Specialist Advisor for Education and Children's Social Care, at The Shropshire Academy and Learning Trust, explores the concept and possible impact of keeping secrets within foster families.
Foster carer Dianne features in our new BBC appeal that aired on Northern Ireland television today. The film called for more people to consider fostering and change the lives of more children in care. It also looked at Step Up Step Down, which is a pioneering project, run by The Fostering Network in partnership with the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust and funded by the Big Lottery, aiming to prevent children who are on the periphery of the care system from being taken into care. Dianne tells us more about her work with Step Up Step Down and her experiences being a foster carer.
Joseph is a 23-year-old care leaver who features in The Fostering Network’s new BBC appeal calling for more people to consider becoming foster carers. The appeal will air in Northern Ireland on BBC One at 3.45pm during Community Life. In preparation for the appeal, we asked Joseph to expand on his transformative experience of foster care.
In her latest blog, author Cathy Glass addresses what to do when the children and young people you are caring for develop bad language or unwelcome habits.
Rosemary Mazzone is a recently retired foster carer from Ramsey on the Isle of Man who was awarded the British Empire Medal last year for services to youth and the community and gained the accolade of the Pride in Mann Community Champion award in 2015.
Here Rosemary tells us about her dedication to her community, the children she looked after and her advice for prospective foster carers.
Our friends at Dreams, Britain's leading bed experts, have a regular blog about sleep called Sleep Matters Club. It's full of handy tips and advice on how to get a better night's sleep - something that many foster carers long for and which many fostered children would benefit from.
The information below is taken from a Sleep Matters Club blog and looks at how much sleep children ideally need according to psychiatrist, physician, and brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen, author of Time for Bed Sleepyhead.
Dreams have also offered us some single bed mattress protectors which are available, for free, to foster carers on a first come, first served basis. See the end of the blog for more information.
I am Yacouba Traore. I am from the Ivory Coast and I have lived in the UK for about six years. I arrived alone in England as a 16-year-old asylum seeker following the murder of my parents who were political activists in my country. I was alone, unable to communicate in English, nowhere to live, no money, no job, no friends, and no family. I was isolated and frightened. My life could not have been more different to the one I had left behind.
