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Contact

Contact with their families while in foster care is often very important to fostered children and foster carers play a vital role in facilitating contact, whether it is accompanying a child to contact or using their own home as the place for contact. While contact is very important, it can bring other issues to fore such as the emotional impact on children of seeing family members who they cannot live with for reasons they may not understand.

In 2011, the Fostering Network received funding to undertake the Supporting Contact project to produce good practice guidance on contact. You can download the resource pack below.

Members of the Fostering Network log in here for more information and resources on contact, and access to peer to peer support in our online community.

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Further reading

  • Key resources in fostering: contact
    Contact (2011)

    Part of the Key Resources in Foster Care series, this list gives details of the resources available on the subject of contact between looked-after children and their families.

    Download Contact

Good practice guidance

Publications

  • Contact pathway
    Contact (2008)

    Ongoing contact with friends and family is a highly complex part of fostering. It is an emotive subject for fostered children and young people, birth families and foster carers. Facilitating contact can be a challenging process, both practically and emotionally.

    This publication by Jacky Slade explores the issues and responsibilities involved in contact, why it is so important for children and young people, and how foster families can overcome the challenges it can pose.

    Order Contact online
  • Contact pathway activity sheet
    Contact activity sheet (2009)

    This is the activity sheet that accompanies the Pathways through Fostering publication Contact.

    Download Contact activity sheet

Resources for foster carers

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