We think of you all year round but this month is time to tell you all out loud! To all of you who are the children of foster carers and sharing your home and parents, thank you 😊 Thank you for accepting new children into your home. We know that sometimes it is not easy,…
Slightly belatedly (Grandparents Day was a few weekends ago!) we are acknowledging the significant input that grandparent figures can have on the lives of young people, either your own or step-grandchildren but also for children in foster care. Thank you Grandparents for all your continued love, support and guidance in all things 😊 However, are…
This week we have been mourning a remarkable lady. Whether you are a fan of the Monarchy or not, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a person of immense integrity, a loyal servant to the country working well into her 90’s, an age when many of us would want to be resting. She was an…
Are you currently working but would like to foster? Have you been told that you can’t foster because you work? Depending on your flexibility, you could foster whilst working! Many children will require a foster carer to be at home full-time (pre-school in particular) due to the high levels of contact/family time, appointments, social worker…
With the fantastic success of England’s Lionesses becoming the UEFA Women’s Euro Football Champions 2022, the spotlight on women’s sports has never been greater. Attendance records at the matches have broken records, girls and boys are wearing team shirts with player’s names such as Mead, Russo, and Toone (personally I want one with Earps!), and…
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…