Fostering blog

This year, during Foster Care Fortnight we’re celebrating Fostering Communities. Dee, a newly approved foster shared how vital the support she has received has been to her and her family.

Our Child and Family Workers, Jackie and Lisa, are on hand to support the children of our foster carers through their emotions around fostering. They shared some useful advice about how you can talk to your child about fostering.

Sarah and her husband Rich both work full-time and have been fostering for nearly three years. Sarah is a primary school teacher and spoke to us about how she juggles a full-time career with caring for two sisters long-term.

October is Sons and Daughters Month, an annual campaign run by The Fostering Network to celebrate the vital contribution which the children of foster carers make to foster care.

We asked Jo how she juggles being a single foster carer with having a social life and what advice she’d have for anyone considering fostering.

In February, we hosted a special night of live music performances and chat as we explored the issues around fostering and adopting children with additional needs and disabilities.

Melissa and John were approved as foster carers late last year, and open up about how they've found the experience so far.

As part of our recent It Takes A Village event, which celebrated and discussed supporting children and young people with additional needs and disabilities, we interviewed 22-year-old Jess

We asked Aaron what impact fostering had on his family and what advice he'd have for parents considering fostering.

Read our interview with Maggie, a Bucks foster carer of over 20 years, who is currently fostering a teenage girl on a long-term basis. 

Read our interview with Sheila, a long-term foster carer of teenagers in Bucks.

Read our interview with 10-year-old Millie, whose mum is a Buckinghamshire short breaks carer.

Read our interview with a foster for Bucks carer, Judith, about her fostering experiences.