Fostering into the Future conference in Cardiff
Wednesday 26th June 2024
We are delighted to invite you to attend the first in our new series of annual conferences “Fostering into the Future”.
Join us to engage in discussion on the challenges facing the care system, hear about innovations in foster care and explore potential for practice development.
The conference will provide a forum for debate and learning with input from a number of contributors who will challenge our thinking, bringing fresh perspectives and visionary insights.
The event will be of interest to foster carers, kinship foster carers, those with lived experiences, social workers, teachers, youth workers, academics and policy makers, as well as anyone interested in ensuring our foster care provision is fit for purpose and meets the needs of all those children and young people who need it.
Date: Wednesday 26th June 2024
Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm (registration and networking will be open from 9.00am)
Location: Novotel Cardiff Centre, Schooner Way, Atlantic Wharf, CF10 4RT
Confirmed speakers include:
- Dawn Boden MS
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Dawn Boden the Minister for Social Care with responsibilities for children, young people and foster care
- ACE Hub Wales
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The ACE Hub Wales works to prevent, tackle and mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). They promote the sharing of ideas and learning, and challenge and change ways of working, so together we can break the cycle of ACEs.
Everyone has a role to play in Wales becoming an ACE and trauma-informed nation. The TrACE toolkit has been developed as a resource to support people, organisations, sectors and systems to develop their own ACE and trauma-informed approach. It focuses on building into, not onto, existing good practice and identifying where improvements and changes can be made to polices, practice, culture and environment.
- Words Matter
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Words Matter is a new charity on a mission to improve children’s mental and physical health by changing the way we speak to ourselves and others.
Our early relationships and experiences lay the foundations of how our brain and body get built, and shape who we become. Whether at home or at school, being surrounded by warm and loving words lays the foundations for children to grow and thrive.
- Voices from Care
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Voices From Care Cymru exists to improve the lives of care experienced children and young people in Wales by being an independent voice for the care community.
Hear from a care experienced young person and a member of the team who will speak about the importance of love in foster care.
- Pause
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Pause is a national charity that works to improve the lives of women who have had – or are at risk of having – more than one child removed from their care, and the services and systems that affect them.
We work with parents and practitioners on reframing the relationships with birth parents.
- InCLUDE
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The InCLUDE project explores how we can build inclusivity into fostering services. Hear from a foster carer involved in the project on his experience and the project co-lead and researcher.
- Terry Galloway, keynote address
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Terry Galloway is a care leaver, advocate and director of Norman Galloway Homes, advocating for the qualification of 'care experience' as a protected characteristic.
- Panel discussion
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Hear from foster carers and care experienced young people on their views of the future of fostering.
Additional speakers and workshops to be announced.
Book today to secure our early bird rate
Members rate
£80 plus VAT (standard rate £100 plus VAT)
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Non-members rate
£99 plus VAT (standard rate £120 plus VAT)
For more information contact our team at learn@fostering.net
