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Frequently asked questions
… Becoming a
foster
carer - Being a
foster
carer - Financial matters … touch with their families often live
in
long-term
foster
care
and have continued support from their local authority or
health
and social
care
trust.
Foster
carers never have …
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Making decisions for a child in foster care
… Why should
foster
carers be involved
in
decisions about a child’s
care
?
In
many cases,
foster
carers know the child they are … feelings (for example,
in
relation to their education or
health
). This means it is very important for
foster
carers to …
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) - our influencing activity
… topics. We have also gathered evidence about children
in
foster
care
's experiences of education during lockdown and made a … Vaccine Deployment
in
England
. Robin Swann, Minister for
Health
in
Northern Ireland. Vaughan Gething, Minister for …
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Health and foster care
…
Foster
carer medicals
In
recent years fostering services … about the difficulties with the system of obtaining
health
information about prospective
foster
carers.
In
… the
health
of many children and young people
in
foster
care
is poorer than that of their peers. The circumstances …
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Fosterline Wales factsheets and briefing papers
… child protection procedures, are receiving a service via a
care
and support plan. This factsheet defines what advocacy … paper
in
English and Welsh . Advocacy and young people
Foster
carers have an essential role to play
in
enabling the … as children are at higher risk of poor mental and physical
health
, and worse outcomes
in
general. Many fostered children …
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Attracting and Keeping Carers - March 2015
… Network launched the results of our State of the Nation’s
Foster
Care
survey, the new minimum allowances for
England
have been … of children aged 8 to 17 coming into
care
, the Western
Health
Trust
in
Northern Ireland is on a recruitment drive to …
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Attracting and Keeping Carers – June 2013
… project to support fostering services to recruit more
foster
carers continues apace. Thank you to the fostering … level, as well as with your statistical neighbours.
Foster
Care
Fortnight Following on from the exclusive article
in
the … minister for social services
in
Wales Gwenda Thomas and
health
minister for Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots
in
our …
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Attracting and Keeping Carers - May 2015
… difference has she made to the lives of children
in
her
care
? These are the honest but positive and inspirational stories we should all be sharing during
Foster
Care
Fortnight™, 1 to 14 June . To help you maintain … ethnicity to help maintain their cultural identity? Their
health
needs – does the child have a disability or any …
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Attracting and Keeping Carers - June 2015
… from a survey reporting that 40 per cent of teenagers
in
foster
care
are already on their third placement; a quarter their … carers. Keynote speaker, Mark Drakeford AM, minister for
health
and social services
in
Wales also spoke on When I’m …
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Round up of Foster Care Fortnight™ 2023 highlights
… There was huge buzz around
Foster
Care
Fortnight 2023, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. With … Toogood, Deputy Permanent Secretary for the Department of
Health
spoke to the audience and pledged his commitment to …
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News Story
UK’s fostering system under ‘unsustainable strain’, top fostering charity warns
… by the goodwill and commitment of thousands of dedicated
foster
carers, leading fostering charity The Fostering … of the charity’s second State of the Nation’s
Foster
Care
report , based on a survey of over 2,500 UK
foster
… their social workers and other services, especially mental
health
services. …
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Foster Care Fortnight launched in Northern Ireland
…
Foster
carers and staff from all fostering providers
in
… family becoming a fostering family. ‘To launch
Foster
Care
Fortnight with our friends and colleagues from the Southern
Health
and Social
Care
Trust and the Regional Adoption and …
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Charity issues a call for under 35s to consider becoming foster carers
… 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 … contribution for many years. ‘It’s great to have the
health
and vitality to keep up this work a couple of years …
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Individualised transition back to school needed for children in foster care
… for tailored transition arrangements for children
in
foster
care
on their return to school, and for the primary focus of the initial return to school to be on students’ mental
health
and wellbeing. This call to support looked after …
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Responding to plans for the education system in England: a need to focus on children who are looked after
… response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social
Care
and we hope this will give the government an opportunity … programme of evidence-based activity across education,
health
and
care
to improve the outcomes of children
in
foster
care
in
England
. The SEND (Special Educational Needs …
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