Fostered children Children of all ages (0-18 years of age) and from various cultural and social backgrounds need to be placed in foster care for many different reasons. Children's circumstances will vary dependent on their individual needs and family background. Whatever the circumstances all of the children will be separated from their parents and will need foster carers to help them at a difficult time...
Fostering and ethnic minorities Foster carers and all the professionals who work with children and their families from ethnic minorities need to be culturally sensitive to the social and economic stressors that black and ethnic minority families experience as a result of racism and discrimination...
Fostering in need Can you deal with all the problems that come with a foster child who is placed with you? Fostering is not just about having good parenting skills or being able to provided good enough care for vulnerable children, it is also about understanding enough about the rights and responsibilities of foster children and foster carers...
UK Fostering, changes for the better Last month the government missed yet another opportunity to make significant changes that would have better recognised and supported the service provided by foster carers to our most vulnerable children and young people. Following a recent government enquiry it was decided not to introduce a national fee based system for foster carers and government again stated their opposition to a foster carer registration scheme...
Family Services - Recruitment It is of paramount importance to choose the right fostering agency, there are over seven hundred in the UK. Simply Fostering, the UK national foster carer recruitment website provides help by answering questions and identifying the most suitable local fostering agencies with vacancies...
Grandparents, their grandchildren and fostering Grandparents have long been victims of family break-up, contact has been stopped with their grandchildren and they are often never considered in the decisions made by parents. A large number of grandparents have experienced family breakdown in their children’s families...
Young people Aged between 10 and 18 years, these young people are unable to live with their own families for many different reasons, including parental mental ill-health, drug and alcohol abuse, imprisonment, domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse or inability to provide consistent parenting...
Fostering children who have been sexually abused It is of paramount importance to choose the right fostering agency, there are over seven hundred in the UK. Simply Fostering, the UK national foster carer recruitment website provides help by answering questions and identifying the most suitable local fostering agencies with vacancies...
The best foster care recruiters? There is a minimum shortage of 5,000 foster carers in the UK today and in order to keep the fostering service buoyant, that figure needs to be doubled. Fostering is about caring for a child in your own home. For a whole variety of reasons there are around 39,000 children (in England) who are placed with foster carers by Social Services...
Annette has fostered eleven children Deciding to be a foster carer seven years ago turned out to be more work than I expected but on the other hand, the most rewarding thing I have done other than get married and have my own children. Fostering is for the children and I do it for the right reasons, to keep them safe for themselves and their families...
