Tag: foster care
We need more foster carers for teenagers
Your understanding of neurodiversity, trauma, and behaviour strategies can make a huge difference in a teen's life, says Hayley Attew.
Teenagers sometimes get a bad...
Making a difference
Foster carers can make the difference between thriving or surviving for the children in their care, writes Emma Fincham.
Too often, children in care with...
What Makes a Mum:
My story from Fostered to Adopter
Not a Fictional Mum is a wife, mother and care-experienced campaigner advocating for a community that she feels is...
Time in your heart
Foster carer Ren is inspiring others to consider fostering in Derby and the East Midlands.
Ren has dedicated the past fifteen years to being a...
Every fifteen minutes
A child comes into care every fifteen minutes in the UK, and will probably need a foster family, says Hayley Attew.
There are over a...
Unlocking talent
Emma Finch’s uplifting story about fostering.
When Kim David Jones and his wife Caron welcomed Daniel into their lives, they couldn't have foreseen the joy...
Fostering a child with autism
Fostering an autistic child can be a rewarding experience, but it does come with challenges, especially as change can be a trigger for difficult behaviour....
Foster care: could it be you?
Dominic Stevenson talks about how fostering can be one of the most varied, challenging and rewarding job you could do.
Around 2,500 children in care...
Changing lives one step at a time
Karina Auer offers a glimpse into the world of parents fostering children with SENEvery day, over 65,000 children in the UK are living with...
Changing lives
Rochelle Bisson reveals how one family’s life has been transformed by fostering a child with complex SEN
