Responding to the article in Community Care Children’s services directors wary of moves to ‘professionalise’ foster carers, Kevin Williams, chief executive of The Fostering Network, said: ‘To debate whether or not using the term professional would be appropriate for foster carers is a redundant argument.
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We welcome the new chair of the Westminster Education Committee, Robert Halfon MP, who was elected yesterday.
The Education Committee is the cross-party parliamentary body, independent of Government, that scrutinises the work of the Department for Education. The committee therefore has an important role in holding the Westminster Government to account.
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The Fostering Network will be reading the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices with interest, especially in regards to if, or how, its findings and recommendations might be applied to foster care.
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We extend a warm welcome to the new Minister of State for Children and Families in England, Robert Goodwill, and hope that under his watch there will be a greater emphasis on foster care than under previous parliaments.
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We would like to congratulate our members who were recognised for their fantastic contribution to fostering in the Queen’s birthday honours this June.
The following foster carers all received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) accolade for services to children and families:
- Edward Davenport
- Jean Davenport
- Sonia Evans
- Pauline Hill
- Roger Hill
- Ernest Lindley
- Christine Meadows
- Jacqueline Rowbottom
- Louise Walkiden
- Timothy Walkiden.
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In response the launch of the independent Care Review in Scotland yesterday, chief executive of The Fostering Network, Kevin Williams, said:
'We welcome the launch of the Care Review and look forward to continuing to support Fiona Duncan as chair and working with the group to share the views of our members in Scotland.
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The artistic work of over 100 fostered children and young people will be displayed at Lisburn Library throughout May, as part of The Fostering Network’s Foster Care Fortnight celebrations.
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Leading fostering charity The Fostering Network is calling for more under 35s to consider becoming foster carers.
The call comes during the second week of Foster Care Fortnight, as part of the charity’s campaign to help recruit 7,000 new foster families across the UK in the coming year.
Less than five per cent of foster carers are under 35, despite this age group making up about 20 per cent of the UK’s population.
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Leading fostering charity The Fostering Network is calling for more under 35s to consider becoming foster carers.
The call comes during the second week of Foster Care Fortnight, as part of the charity’s campaign to help recruit 7,000 new foster families across the UK in the coming year.
Less than five per cent of foster carers are under 35, despite this age group making up about 20 per cent of the UK’s population.
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William and Valerie Newell, were nominated by their two foster children, who say any child would be lucky to live with them.
They were given the accolade from The Fostering Network at Northern Ireland’s 2017 Foster Carer of the Year Awards, on Saturday 13 May at the Hilton Hotel, Belfast.
The award selection panel were ‘blown away’ by the stories the Newells shared with them. The couple have been fostering with the Southern Trust for 13 years, looking after many babies, sibling groups and children with complex needs as well as bringing up three children of their own.
