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Health and foster care
…
Foster
carer medicals In recent years
fostering
services have increasingly expressed concern
about
the difficulties with the system of obtaining health … the role of the
foster
carer. This is necessary to ensure
all
relevant information is provided to the medical advisor …
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Safer caring
… decisions they take. They will be asked by their
fostering
service to do some things differently than they … and how to stay safe. So the key to good, safer caring is
about
foster
carers
being aware of the risks involved for … social worker and the
fostering
service. Safer caring is
all
about
being “risk-sensible”, not risk-averse. It is
about
…
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Blog entry
Attracting and Keeping Carers - March 2015
… Nationally, The
Fostering
Network launched the results of our State of the … their LGBT Adoption and
Fostering
Week . I’ve been out and
about
on a fact finding mission for this month’s IN FOCUS, … Pioneer values - 81 per cent compared to 73 per cent of
all
foster
carers
. The report also contains interesting …
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Safer caring - a blog from our chief executive, Kevin Williams
… For many years The
Fostering
Network has campaigned for
foster
carers
to be … many within the sector who have not. I have written before
about
the almost non-existent threshold for an allegation to … to the children and young people they care for? This
all
requires an approach to caring which is dynamic and …
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Government response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care – initial thoughts from The Fostering Network
… response to Care Review recommendations relevant to
fostering
You told us you
foster
because you want to make a … called on the Government to make Mockingbird available in
all
local
authority
areas. The Government have announced that … the best way to gather feedback from members. Read more
about
the consultation process here . …
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News Story
Strengthen long-term fostering to provide stability for children, report urges
…
foster
carer and
child
, according to a new report by The
Fostering
Network , which calls for the development of … should have more
authority
to make day-to-day decisions
about
the care of children in long-term placements than
about
… social worker. However, nearly two in 10 felt not at
all
supported. Inadequate access to the
child
’s social worker …
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