Jump to navigation

Home
  • Shop - Cart 0 item(s) - £0.00
  • Register
  • Login
  • Search
  • Advice & Information
    • Advice
    • Coronavirus (Covid-19)
    • Could you foster?
    • All about fostering
    • Being a foster carer
    • Looking after a fostered child
    • Finances
    • Find a fostering service
    • Training & consultancy
    • Publications
  • Policy & Practice
    • Policy positions
    • Consultation responses
    • Research
    • Practice information
    • Projects and programmes
    • Recruitment and retention
  • Get involved
    • Championing fostering
    • Foster Care Fortnight
    • Membership
    • Our campaigns
    • Training and events calendar
  • Fundraise
    • Ways to fundraise
    • Fundraising during COVID-19
    • How to donate
    • Charity Lottery
    • Digital fundraising
    • Partner with us
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Legacies and in memory gifts
    • How your money helps
    • Don't Move Me appeal
  • Donate

Search

You are here

Home » Search
  • Content
    Safer Caring: A New Approach– supplementary resources
    The Fostering Network published Safer Caring: A New Approach to challenge the ‘risk averse’ culture that had ... carers and their families from complaints and allegations. Safer Caring: A New Approach is a vital resource for everyone involved in the ...
    Read more >
    Supporting safer caring
    ... in which The Fostering Network has built its approach to safer caring. Safer Caring: A New Approach Whereas in the past identified ...
    Read more >
    Safer caring – further advice
    Managing risk As foster carers, the key to good, safer caring is to think through the risks involved in different situations, and make ...
    Read more >
    Safer caring
    ... difference with a fostered child is that foster carers are caring for them on behalf of the state, and so are accountable for the ... awareness of risk and how to stay safe. So the key to good, safer caring is about foster carers being aware of the risks involved for ...
    Read more >
    The Skills to Foster
    ... the use of case studies. Session 4: Understanding and caring for children This session explains that children who display ... within a safe and caring framework. Session 5: Safer caring This session takes a holistic approach to safer caring. ...
    Read more >
    Financial support and learning and development for foster carers and staying put carers
    ... services requires this to be set to cover the full cost of caring for them.’ Payments to former foster carers should be made ... caring for a young adult delegated authority safer caring relationships including family contacts child sexual ...
    Read more >
    Fostering in a digital world
    ... publication online. Chapter 10 of our publication Safer Caring: a new approach also provides helpful tips about safer caring in a ...
    Read more >
    Saying ‘hello’ to new arrivals
    ... everyone in the home knows the rules and guidelines. Such ‘safer caring’ policies can also protect foster carers from the risks of their ...
    Read more >
    Training courses
    ... to book your course or find out more. Caring for looked after children These courses will introduce newer carers ... to manage the risk inherent in foster care. Safer Caring: a new approach Managing Allegations Delegated Authority ...
    Read more >
    President's Award winners - past and present
    ... she missed a full year of school and spent much of her time caring for her younger brother. She has always been clear they “come as a ... Development Standards and has been chosen to co-train on a safer caring course for male foster carers. As well as all this, Richard ...
    Read more >
    The Fostering Network helplines
    ... allegations delegated authority safer caring standards and legislation education.   ...
    Read more >
    Our work in England
    ... of foster carers, arrangements for young people 18+ and safer caring. Find details of the practice support consultant in your area . ...
    Read more >
    Allegations
    ... and training You can purchase our publication Safer Caring: A New Approach which covers some of the wider issues and suggests ...
    Read more >
    Recruitment and retention resources
    ... foster carers with the basic skills they need. Modules on safer caring and identity are preceded by introductory topics on what foster carers ...
    Read more >
  • Blog entry
    Safer caring - a blog from our chief executive, Kevin Williams
    ... authority which will enable the children they are caring for to experience childhood in the way that their non-looked after peers ... daily lives, their experiences in the here and now. Safer Caring publication Our publication,  Safer Caring: A New Approach ...
    Read more >
    Safer Caring
    ... in practise?’ Jim and I ask our assessor, Stef. The Safer Caring guidance is provided by The Fostering Network but each agency will have ...
    Read more >
    Holidays and fostering
    ... meet the needs of your fostered child? Think about safer caring practice and how you will implement this while on holiday. Will ...
    Read more >
    Unfounded allegations
    ... out) or away, but we can’t afford to relax our guard or safer caring policy. We need to be as vigilant as ever as my friend and her family ...
    Read more >
    A message to foster carers from our director of operations
    ... and the professional as a foster carer, exploring what ‘safer caring’ really means or focussing on our relationships and wellbeing, love ...
    Read more >
    Waiting for your first arrival
    ... hurt them – there are guidelines for foster carers in our Safer Caring publication to protect foster carers from the risks of their action ...
    Read more >
    Social pedagogy: changing the future of foster care
    ... carers wanting to advocate on behalf of those they are caring for is not a new phenomenon, but because social pedagogy has an academic ... for example in how annual reviews are conducted or how safer caring courses are run. So, as Head, Heart, Hands enters its final ...
    Read more >
    Grooming
    ... realised I fostered a 13-year-old girl who came from a very caring family but was groomed right under the eyes of her parents. The Fostering Network’s produces two books, Safer Caring and Fostering in a Digital World , that give foster ...
    Read more >
    Skills to foster
    ... of multiple moves on a child’s psyche, and approaches to safer caring, to name but a few. The group was respectful, open and warm and while ...
    Read more >
    Head, Heart, Hands - January 2016
    ... as well as being able to express some of your feelings in a safer way.’ My journey as a social pedagogue Simon Johr, ... Children and Young People In Care: Learning Placements and Caring Schools By Claire Cameron, Graham Connelly and Sonia Jackson. ...
    Read more >
    Secrets, lies and untruths - why foster carers don’t keep secrets
    ... permission to speak up and be heard, but also supports safer caring principles for additional children that may visit or live with the ...
    Read more >
    Head, Heart, Hands April 2015
    ... the importance of risk taking and how this can clash with safer caring policies. We talked about how there needs to be a cultural shift in ...
    Read more >
  • News story
    Fostering Roadshow planned for new year
    ... finance, delegated authority, The Skills to Foster , Safer Caring and allegations, as well as opportunities to network with others who ...
    Read more >
  • Events
    Safer Caring: a new approach
    ... in foster care. This course reflects the new approach to safer caring recently launched by the Fostering Network and has three significant ...
    Read more >
    Safeguarding
    ... be bought individually, or as a package. Safer Caring: A New Approach Aim To consider the ...
    Read more >
    Specialist foster care
    ... who have been sexually abused and the impact this has on Safer Caring. Reflect on the emotions working with abused children ...
    Read more >
    Men Who Foster
    ... who have been sexually abused and the impact this has on safer caring, reflect on the emotions that working with abused children can arouse ...
    Read more >
    Men in Foster Care
    ... who have been sexually abused and the impact this has on safer caring practice explore ways to support men in foster care. Booking ...
    Read more >
    Training for trainers
    ... Behaviour Contact Safer caring Health Education ...
    Read more >
    Free online webinar: Managing online gaming and digital safety for young people in care
    ... care to stay safe online and manage online gaming through a safer caring approach provide top tips and advice for foster carers to help ...
    Read more >
    Foster Carer’s Professional Development
    ... have within the household Considered safer caring, and ways to minimise risk to their children Considered ...
    Read more >
  • About us
    • What we do
    • Why we're here
    • Site map
    • Work for us
    • Contact us
    • Compliments and complaints
    • Privacy statement
    • Terms and conditions
  • Media
    • Latest news
    • Press releases
    • Fostering statistics
    • Blogs
    • Magazines
    • Podcasts
    • Resource reviews
Featured blog
Mockingbird: better together and bright times ahead

January 15th, 2021

Mockingbird constellations are led by a hub home carer and liaison worker who support six to ten satellite families to form a supportive community based on an extended family model – the first constellations in the UK launched in late 2015.

More blogs

Foster Care Magazine
January 2021
  • Terms & conditions
  • Privacy

Website and contents copyright © The Fostering Network 2016

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
YouTube

Registered in England and Wales as a limited company no. 1507277

Registered charity in England and Wales 280852 and in Scotland SC039338

Not for Profit website design : pedalo limited