Social media is a significant presence in most people’s lives, particularly children and young people, and has had many positive impacts but there are some negatives. For example, social media influencers can have many online followers and portray glamourous lifestyles that young people are obviously interested in and perhaps wish to achieve for themselves when…
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…
