Developments in foster care

Fostered children and young people have very different needs and it is important that foster care as an approach develops to reflect and meets these needs.

Different approaches include support care where children have regulars short breaks with foster carers to give their families or foster carers support, multi-dimensional treatment foster care where highly trained foster carers can give additional support to young people with severe difficulties and social pedagogy where foster carers and others work holistically to improve outcomes for children and young people.

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Good practice guidance

The motivations to foster: a toolkit for fostering services (2012)

The Motivations to Foster contains the findings of a survey, carried out by the Fostering Network and funded by the Department for Education and contains key information about who fosters and why they foster.

Download The motivations to foster: a toolkit for fostering services

Newsletters

A decade of change (2011)

This extended feature from Foster Care magazine summer 2011 goes back over a decade of change at the Fostering Network and showcases some of the services and support that foster carers and fostering services have benefited from.

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Reports

Addas i Faethu?: Proffil o Ofal Maeth a Gofalwyr Maeth yng Nghymru (2003)

The Welsh language version of a report looking at the results of two surveys, one of foster carers and one of fostering services. It considers the situation of foster care in Wales in terms of a range of issues including training, retention of carers and placement issues.

Also available in English.

Download Addas i Faethu?: Proffil o Ofal Maeth a Gofalwyr Maeth yng Nghymru

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