Blogs

Lucy Stevens works for a fostering service and fosters an unaccompanied asylum seeking child. In this blog Lucy talks us through her experiences of fostering.

By Lucy Stevens on May 7th, 2017

Director of The Fostering Network in Wales, Colin Turner, gives an update of our work in Wales our new project Fostering Wellbeing.

By Foster Care Fortnight on May 7th, 2017
James Foyle will be leading our new Muslim Fostering Project and in this blog touches on the importance of faith and identity in foster care.
By Foster Care Fortnight on May 7th, 2017

In this blog Phil Jacob, The Fostering Network's fundraising and development manager, takes us through some of the great lengths our supporters have gone to in the name of raising money.

By Foster Care Fortnight on May 7th, 2017

Melissa Green is the director of operations for The Fostering Network. In this blog Melissa highlights the importance of stability in foster care and how our Mocking programme is delivering it.

By Foster Care Fortnight on May 7th, 2017

Lauren is the daughter of a foster carer and also one of our young champions in Scotland.

By Foster Care Fortnight on May 7th, 2017

Diana Kilduff has been fostering for nearly five years with her family and specialises in looking after children with disabilities.

By Foster Care Fortnight on May 7th, 2017
The UK General Election takes place on 8 June, and despite the short notice it is nevertheless an important opportunity to both raise the profile, and campaign to improve, foster care.
By Policy and Campaigns tFN on May 5th, 2017
Judith Dennis is policy manager at the Refugee Council. In this blog she shares the Refugee Council's experience of working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Judith will be speaking at our West Midlands conference on 23 May.
By Foster Care Fortnight on May 5th, 2017

Professor Claire Cameron and Katie Hollingworth (Twitter - @IOE_TCRU) work at the Thomas Coram Research Unit and specialise in research studies of children in care, foster care, and young people leaving care. Here they explain about a project they are undertaking to explore how to recruit more men to become foster carers.

By Daniel.Sinclairtfn on April 8th, 2017