Missing Your Foster Child At Christmas

At UK Fostering we are often asked to help with providing foster homes for children who are needing a safe place during the Christmas and New Year period. It is such an emotional time for a foster child to be away from their families, and foster carers can provide an empathetic, supportive home environment at…

Disadvantaged Children At Christmas

As we come into the festive season you may be full of excitement to be able to celebrate face to face with loved-ones, friends etc., after last year’s damp squib lockdown of a Christmas. I’ve already got the freezer and cupboard filling up with Christmas foods and slowly started my gift buying. Hopefully, this year…

Learning a Language

‘To speak a single language is to be enclosed in one cultural possibility’ – Martin Hoffman In an increasingly globalised world such as ours, it is often emphasised that the study of languages has an especially important part in capitalising on opportunities for international trade and relations. However, it is for most people, a fantastic…

Anti-Bullying Week 2021: One Kind Word

Bullying can happen anywhere including at school, at home or online. Bullying is usually repeated over a long period of time and can hurt a child both physically and emotionally, even into adulthood. Whilst it is the victim of the abuse who is most vulnerable, it is important to remember that all children who are…

Fun – Are You Doing It Right?

Most of us are now settled back into school or the workplace instead of online or perhaps experiencing an empty house as everyone is now back in their out of home routine! This is maybe a good time to ensure that we set ourselves a new routine with a better attitude to finding ways to…

Impact Of Emotional Abuse

In the final installment of our series on childhood abuse we look at emotional abuse of which is often present in all of the other forms of abuse covered in this series. What is emotional abuse? The NSPCC defines emotional abuse as “any type of abuse that involves the continual emotional mistreatment of a child.…

UK Fostering awarded ‘outstanding’ grade in yet another high-scoring Ofsted inspection

Organisation found to be exceeding standards and transforming lives by placing “children at the heart” of the practice  UK Fostering has reaffirmed its status as one of Britain’s most reputable, trusted and successful fostering agencies after securing a rare clean sweep of ‘outstanding’ grades from The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills…

World Pasta Day – 25th October

“You can be a policeman, a prince, a banker or whatever, but we are all the same when we eat our bowl of pasta” – Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, The Prince of Venice It’s World Pasta Day! When times are difficult and we are dealing with constant changes and adjustments brought on by COVID, what…

Impact Of Physical Abuse

In the third installment of our series on childhood abuse, we look at how some children come into foster care due to experiencing physical abuse and what may have been the impact of these difficult experiences for them. Firstly… What is physical abuse? “Physical abuse is any way of causing deliberate physical harm to a…