Support for young people

Part of the Key Resources in Foster Care series, this list provides pointers to some key resources for use with and by looked-after children.

Part of the Key Resources in Foster Care series, this list gives information about resources about the issue of the rights of children and young people to participate in decisions made about their lives.

The national newsletter produced by the Leading Our Lives young people's participation project in England.

Clear, colourful and accessible, these leaflets have been developed as a result of our work with young people - setting out what they said they wanted to be told as they began their first foster care placement. Available in packs of ten, they are a cost-effective way of supporting looked-after young people.

This handbook for sons and daughters of foster carers provides children whose family has chosen to foster with answers to the many questions they have. In straightforward language, it explains what fostering means, and why children and young people may be in foster care.

A unique collection of prose and poetry expressing the thoughts, ideas and opinions of fostered children and young people, and the sons and daughters of foster carers.

This report sets out the work of the Parenting Fund Project. Key findings, as given by care-experienced young parents, are outlined along with the current and future work to be undertaken in response to them.