Skills To Foster is a standardised and mandatory course that fostering applicants need to take in order to progress on… Read more »
Streamlining Skills To Foster
Year: 2023
Judge finds that Home Office unlawfully placed unaccompanied children in hotels
On Thursday 27th July a High Court judge, Mr Justice Chamberlain, said: “From December 2021 at the latest, the practice… Read more »
What does the fostering enquiry look like?
The decision to pick up the phone and make your first fostering enquiry can be one that takes months, or… Read more »
Fostering For The Right Reasons
In foster care, there is often a sensitivity around the subject of the fees and allowances foster carers receive when… Read more »
Fostering In The Summer Holidays
As the school summer holidays approach, you may be thinking about booking activities and holidays for the children in your… Read more »
The Men Who Foster
If someone asked you to describe a foster carer, what would you say? Maybe you would describe a man and… Read more »
What Is Therapeutic Parenting?
Therapeutic parenting is a parental approach that combines instilling firm boundaries, routines and strategies – along with a model called… Read more »
How long does it take to become a foster parent?
Fostering is one of the most rewarding things you can do, but it is not a decision that should be… Read more »
Fostering a Child With Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is not an illness or a disease, and is not something that can be cured. It… Read more »
Foster Carer Tax Allowance
When it comes to fostering and tax, it can quite often become confusing. Foster carer tax allowance, or the amount… Read more »
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