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Based on the pioneering work of Dr Bruce Perry, Dr Dan Hughes (P.A.C.E) and Louise Bomber, this interactive session will equip carers with practical strategies to help support the mental wellbeing of the children and young people they care for.
Based on the pioneering work of Dr Bruce Perry, Dr Dan Hughes (P.A.C.E) and Louise Bomber, this interactive session will equip carers with practical strategies to help support the mental wellbeing of the children and young people they care for.
Executive function is a set of mental skills that help us set goals, plan and finish tasks. However, some looked after children and young people struggle with theirs.
Executive function is a set of mental skills that help us set goals, plan and finish tasks. However, some looked after children and young people struggle with theirs.
This workshop will explore what executive function skills are, how they affect everyday life and why looked after children and young people might have poor executive function skills.
Along with our partners at the Mortgage Brain, The Fostering Network is hosting a webinar for any foster carer who would like to learn more about the specifics of applying for a mortgage as a foster carer.
Understanding and applying for mortgages is difficult, and for foster carers this can be more difficult due to your self-employed status and issues surrounding income evidence.
For further information click link https://bit.ly/TFNmortgage
On 27 January 2023 The Northern Ireland Children’s Commissioner (NICCY) published a report ‘Looked after? A Formal Investigation into the Life of a Child in the Care of the State’.
The review was announced in February 2022 took 16 months to complete, publishing in June 2023. Led by Professor Ray Jones, the review engaged with parents, children and young people and those working within and alongside children’s social care services, including foster and kinship foster carers. The Chair was assisted by an Advisory Panel consisting of Her Honour, Judge Patricia Smyth, Professor Pat Dolan and Marie Roulston, OBE, a former Director of Children’s Services in Northern Ireland.
The Department of Health (Northern Ireland) have published details of the uplift to foster care allowances for 2022/23 in Northern Ireland. The increase is on average 3 per cent, comparable to national minimum allowances in England (outside of London and the South East).
It has been well documented that this year, all families are facing unprecedented increases in their cost of living, with inflation currently at 10.1 per cent.
