Did you watch the recent adaption of Kit de Waal’s well-regarded book about a young boy who is trying to navigate being in foster care in the early 1980s (a very different time for fostering and ideas of child-centred practice!)? If you did, wasn’t the young actor in the title role, Cole Martin, fantastic! Whilst…
This year marks 50 years of Pride celebrations in the UK! Gay Pride did however start a few years earlier in the USA, where the first LGBT Pride march was coordinated by Brenda Howard, known as the “Mother of Pride”. She also initiated the idea of a programme of weeklong events around the Pride march.…
Today is World Foster Day! World Foster Day is held annually on 31 May and is an amazing global initiative that was started in 2018 and has increasingly gained momentum and traction over the past few years. Today we want to highlight and thank all the families and individuals who have raised their hands to…
The Queen’s Jubilee let’s celebrate with a party! Her Majesty has given this country 70 years of loyal service and she, and the rest of us, deserve to have a good time celebrating. As a community, our road wanted to make this occasion one to remember and celebrate. A small group of residents met to…
As a foster carer, you may be caring for a child that may need some extra support to express themselves or manage their emotions. Here are a couple of great creative ideas that you may like to explore, to help children and young people of all ages with some of these issues. Working on these…
Reflecting on the theme of this year’s Foster Care Fortnight, we at the UK Fostering work feel that we work hard to create an environment in which all, whether you are a foster carer, young person, staff member or external colleague, can feel part of the UK Fostering community. For us at the UK Fostering…
Each year during Foster Care Fortnight we hope to share with you the wonderful world of being a foster carer, and how fostering can transform the lives of children and young people who are temporarily not able to live with their families. From 9th through to 22nd May this year we will look at this…
This week is the Jewish festival of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew). This major festival in the Jewish calendar celebrates the story of the Exodus. During Passover, Jewish people remember how the Israelites were led out of Egypt by Moses and away from a life of slavery. Passover is celebrated with a series of rituals, with…
We are currently in the holy month of Ramadan which is one of the most important dates in the Islamic calendar. Ramadan The month of Ramadan celebrates that the Qu’ran (Koran), which is the Islamic sacred book, was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed during this time. The word Ramadan is from the Arabic word for…
As we move towards the Christian Festival of Easter, it can also be interesting to take a look at some of the wider background to spring festivals in general, as some of the traditions associated with Easter can date from much earlier. Stories of Resurrection Obviously, the Easter festival celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ,…