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Throughout October we've been celebrating incredible children of foster carers and everything they do to support children and young people joining their families. Liv has shared her experience with us.
Genevieve and her husband Neil have been fostering for three years. They have one birth child, William, aged 9, and are fostering two siblings, aged 8 and 14, on a long-term basis. To mark Children of Foster Carers Month, Genevieve has shared some tips for those considering fostering, but are apprehensive about how their birth children might adapt to the change.
Chief executive of The Fostering Network Sarah Thomas reflects on her experiences at The Labour Party Conference 2024.
In 2021, foster carers Debbie and Jason founded The Raft, a charity that provides help and support to care experienced families. Here, Debbie tells us about their work, and how they’ve been using Lego, to help care-experienced children develop their communication skills, confidence and social and emotional wellbeing.
Abandoned as a baby, Fatima Whitbread spent the first 11 years of her life living in a children’s home. She explains how she survived, became a world class athlete and now works to help other vulnerable children and young people to feel seen and heard.
The new Labour government has been in power for just over three weeks – here’s what’s been done so far to make steps towards improving the lives of children and young people.
Each year we are blown away by the support for Foster Walk and 2024 was no different. We've shared a few of the many highlights from this year's sponsored walk.
We spoke to children and young people in foster care across England and Wales who shared with us the positive impact of foster care on their lives but also what they want to see change. Read on to hear the children and young people’s recommendations to the governments in England and Wales.
After Vaughan Gething MS was appointed the new First Minister of Wales in March 2024, we reflected on what the top priorities for children's social care should be moving forward.
Friday 2 February 2024 marked a year since the government’s publication of Stable Homes Built on Love (SHBL). The strategy sets out the government’s plans for reforming children’s social care in England. It was released as a response to the recommendations from multiple high-profile reviews produced in 2022 on children’s social care, including those in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, led by Josh MacAlister. See our responses to the review.
