What is fostering?
Fostering is one of several care options that offers children a home when they are unable to live with their birth family.
foster care fortnight
Inspiring and informing
Welcome to Foster Care FortnightTM 2019 – the UK’s biggest annual fostering awareness campaign, developed and delivered by The Fostering Network.
A fantastic two weeks of celebration
Proud to foster and proud to support fostering. Here is Kevin Williams, The Fostering Network's chief executive, closing statement as Foster Care FortnightTM draws to an end after two fabulous weeks.
What to expect once you've become a foster carer
Fantastic, you’ve been through the process of pre-approval training, assessment and panel and now you’ve been approved as a foster carer. That’s great news. But what can you expect next?
Foster Care Fortnight: Our opportunity to celebrate foster carers and kinship carers
Kathleen Toner, director of The Fostering Network in Northern Ireland, what we are doing to celebrate Foster Care Fortnight in Northern Ireland and the future of foster care in the nation
Building strong and lasting bonds
Melissa Green is the director of operations for The Fostering Network. In this blog Melissa highlights the importance of stability in foster care and how our Mocking programme is delivering it.
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children - the Refugee Council
Judith Dennis is policy manager at the Refugee Council. In this blog she shares the Refugee Council's experience of working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Judith will be speaking at our West Midlands conference on 23 May.
Happiness, belonging, caring - I would not be who I am without foster care
This remarkable essay was written by Adam, a 19-year-old university student in Scotland.
