Blogs
Read the latest blog from our campaigns team, featuring campaigns news from across the UK. Don't forget to also check out our new podcast, All About Fostering, which features our campaigns manager, Vicki Swain.
Mark Kerr is lead partner at the Centre for Outcomes of Care and lectures at the University of Kent. Predominantly he is a researcher and strategist who specialises in the development of evidence based service designs and associated outcome frameworks. Mark has a distinct focus on outcomes for looked after children and care leavers regularly challenging policymakers and practitioners to improve their use of evidence. He also supports organisations to incorporate programme outcomes in to evaluation at a national and local level as well as service delivery improvement.
Mark will be speaking at a number of our conferences, including Salford on 19 October. One delegate at a previous conference said: 'Mark is such a dynamic and passionate speaker.'
Dr Karen Treisman is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the NHS and children’s services for several years. She has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, and attachment, and works clinically using a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children.
Karen is a regular contributor to The Fostering Network’s conference. Karen has a new book out - A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma: Creative Techniques and Activities – and here she outlines why she has written the book and how she hopes it will help.
This blog, by our chief executive Kevin Williams, first appeared on Huffington Post on 25 August 2017.
Kathleen Toner, director of The Fostering Network in Northern Ireland, outlines our role in shaping the proposed new children’s legislation in Northern Ireland and the merits of updating the law
Our recent Health Matters project in Scotland has been exploring issues relating to foster carers’ health
Our regular blogger Lucy Stevens wrote this poem after being inspired by one of her fostering service's foster carers who she says is doing amazing work
