My Family Foster – What’s It Like?

Many foster carers have their own biological children, often known as ‘birth children’ within fostering, who are very involved in welcoming and supporting foster children that come and share their home.  But what is it actually like to be a birth child in a fostering household? Nia Clark, now a young adult, grew up within…

Regular Blog By Foster Carer, Nicky

One of our foster carers will be writing a regular blog on our website.  She introduces herself here: “Hey, my name is Nicky. I live in North East of England with my hubby Kev and our three dogs. We foster children. We started our fantastic roller coaster of a journey on 18th April 2018. Our…

We Foster, And Have Our Own Young Children

Fostering with your own young children can be an additional challenge, not just due to managing several sets of school runs or clashing bath and bedtimes, but all the other factors of running a fostering household such as being available for social worker meetings, family contact etc, that invariably clash with someone’s nap time! This…

A Day In The Life Of A Placement Officer 2021

There are two regular placement officers at UK Fostering who cover our 4 regions. The role of a placement officer requires a variety of skills as matching foster placements in relation to a child’s needs, background, and practical factors, is complex and involves quite a few people in the decision-making process. Placement officers need to…

Foster Care Fortnight 2021 – #WhyWeCare

Foster Care Fortnight was started by The Fostering Network, which is a leading national fostering information charity, and is now an annual event to: “raise awareness of the transformational power of fostering and to celebrate the fostering community”. (the fosteringnetwork.org.uk, 2021) So often television, film, and other media, do not give particularly accurate representations of…

National Share-a-Story Month – May 2021

The Federation of Children’s Book Groups (FCBG) is an organisation that was started in the 1960s, in response to parent’s and carer’s desires to learn more about children’s books, and how to encourage children to read more. Children’s Book Groups were created all over the UK, and the Federation serves to link them all together.…