Blogs
Our friends at Dreams, Britain's leading bed experts, have a regular blog about sleep called Sleep Matters Club. It's full of handy tips and advice on how to get a better night's sleep - something that many foster carers long for and which many fostered children would benefit from.
The information below is taken from a Sleep Matters Club blog and looks at how much sleep children ideally need according to psychiatrist, physician, and brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen, author of Time for Bed Sleepyhead.
Dreams have also offered us some single bed mattress protectors which are available, for free, to foster carers on a first come, first served basis. See the end of the blog for more information.
I am Yacouba Traore. I am from the Ivory Coast and I have lived in the UK for about six years. I arrived alone in England as a 16-year-old asylum seeker following the murder of my parents who were political activists in my country. I was alone, unable to communicate in English, nowhere to live, no money, no job, no friends, and no family. I was isolated and frightened. My life could not have been more different to the one I had left behind.
This blog, by Megan Jarvie, head of policy and public affairs at the Family and Childcare Trust, coincides with the launch of their report Starting Out Right: Early Education and Looked After Children. You can read our response to the report here.
In this blog, Debbie Douglas, an experienced foster carer (and star of The Only Way Is Essex), shares ten thoughts on how she has 'survived' being a foster carer.
We'd love to hear your thoughts too. Email your list to media@fostering.net
£212 a week. According to insurance company LV=, the average cost of bringing up a child is just over £11,000 per year. That’s £212 a week. If you’re a parent, like me, then that sort of figure will probably come as no surprise to you. So, why is it that more than 5,000 fostered children in Scotland - for whom the Scottish Government is the corporate parent - are deemed to need significantly less than that each week?
