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Long-term foster care and permanence
… Most children
who
cannot live with their birth family, or with kinship … the care plan for the child is to remain in a specific
fostering
placement, usually until reaching adulthood and … may well need support to manage the changes in the child’s
needs
which emerge over time, to manage changing …
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Why foster?
… need to thrive. Why foster? There's nothing quite like
fostering
if you want to work with children. Foster carers … for your own children, or having another job. The age and
needs
of the children in your care will affect what else you … foster carer for more than 10 years. Find out more
Who
can foster? Across the UK,
fostering
services are looking …
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Who needs fostering?
… been abused or neglected. Each child’s circumstances and
needs
are unique. When the decision is made to take a child … in Northern Ireland. There are many different types of
fostering
and each
fostering
service will need to recruit … needed across the UK this year alone. Make sure you ask
who
needs
fostering
when applying to foster with a
fostering
…
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Making Tax Digital
… About the campaign The
Fostering
Network met with HMRC in May 2023
who
explained their thinking to include foster carers in … the ideal skills and experience to meet their specific
needs
. This means children in care are not able to reach …
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Annual reviews
… than a year after approval, and thereafter whenever the
fostering
service provider considers it necessary, but at … or appropriate to safeguard the welfare of any child
who
has been placed with that carer.
Fostering
regulations … course on annual reviews, tailored to meet your service's
needs
. Contact our training team for more information. …
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Six priorities for the new Welsh First Minister
… in the Senedd and hope that children’s social care and
fostering
will continue to be prioritised under Gething’s … no published data on
fostering
households for Wales. There
needs
to be better data collection and sharing in order to … authorities in Wales to join the 90 councils across the UK
who
have already signed up to this in this important …
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With the right support we can do so much more
… I need to come clean and tell you that I’ve only been
fostering
for two years. Actually not even two whole years! … society values our looked after children and the carers
who
are raising them? We know that poverty is a major … a minimum. Foster carers’ fees are also an area which
needs
assessment. Amounts vary between authorities, from no …
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Fostering Hope
… Tell us a bit about your experience and your connection to
fostering
? In 2006, I got a job as a specialist teenage … into the experiences of other PAC foster carers, parents
who
had been in foster care with a child, and social workers. … own unique strengths recognised and developed, and their
needs
met through timely interventions and therapies; to see …
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Why foster carer Jo, from East Yorkshire, had a 12ft statue made in her honour
… the baby’s twin sister is also sleeping nearby. She is
fostering
the babies and a 15-year-old girl at the time of us … pan-disability football club for children with additional
needs
. She went on to win the award and receive the honour, … my husband I had always wanted to foster, as I knew others
who
did and thought “I could do that really well”.’ Fast …
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Fosterline Wales: the foster carer’s lifeline
… carers in Wales, and since then they have funded The
Fostering
Network to provide Fosterline Wales. As devolution … able to support foster carers, social workers and others
who
are part of the
fostering
team. Many foster carers tell … for two brothers under the age of five
who
had significant
needs
that they felt were not being met by social services or …
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News Story
Urgent need for over 8,000 new foster families across the UK this year
… the right foster home first time, according to leading
fostering
charity The
Fostering
Network. The need is … families coming forward during 2018, and especially those
who
could foster teenagers and sibling groups, some children … the right skills and experience to meet their specific
needs
. More foster families means that a
fostering
service …
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Urgent need for over 8,000 new foster families across the UK this year
… the right foster home first time, according to leading
fostering
charity The
Fostering
Network. The need is … families coming forward during 2018, and especially those
who
could foster teenagers and sibling groups, some children … the right skills and experience to meet their specific
needs
. More foster families means that a
fostering
service …
Read more>
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