Reasons Why a Child May Be Taken Into Care in the UK
This guide explains the most common reasons children enter care, the process behind these decisions, and why foster carers play such a vital role in their lives.
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What Disqualifies You from Being a Foster Parent in the UK?
If you’re considering opening your heart and home to a child, understanding the differences between fostering and adoption in the UK can help you decide which path suits your family best.
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Fostering vs Adoption in the UK: Which Path to Parenthood Is Right for You?
If you’re considering opening your heart and home to a child, understanding the differences between fostering and adoption in the UK can help you decide which path suits your family best.
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Breaking placements – when it seems impossible to stay
By Dr Jane Herd. First published in Foster, Issue 13, 2022. Complex processes come into play when a child must leave their foster home, particularly when this comes to pass because the foster carers feel they can no longer manage to maintain the child in their care. This article offers a tool for considering presenting …
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How to handle celebrations as a foster parent.
Holidays can be difficult for children in foster care. If a child has never experienced the holidays nor the traditions that come along with them, they may feel out of place or uncomfortable. It might also trigger the children to think back to their own family — what they never had or what they’ve lost. …
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Becoming a Foster Parent – What’s Really Involved?
Are you considering fostering but are unsure what it would involve and what will be expected of you? Will you simply be taking in children and looking after them until they leave, or is there more to it than that?
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How to help your foster child with school
Unfortunately, a large proportion of children in foster care are still likely to experience problems in school. The reasons for this are several; from a difficult home life to movement between different schools during key stages of childhood, foster children absolutely need extra support to help them achieve academic success.
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The role of a Foster Carer
Foster carers offer children and young people a safe and caring home when they are unable to live with their birth family. This is often a child’s first positive experience of family life.
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Fostering Stories : Beth
“Fostering for me was an adventure. Like any job it had its ups and its downs. When I say job, I do mean job. A job for me, my brother and sister, not just my mum and dad; we were all involved in various ways. It was just like having an extended family, with extra brothers and sisters, and having mum at home was …
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Summer Holiday : Activities for Children
While the weather may not be showing signs of summer in all areas of the UK, the school holidays will soon be here and with them the challenge of finding stimulating things for you and your foster child to enjoy during the extra time you will spend together. While it’s always nice to be able …
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