Supporting foster families

Part of the Key Resources in Foster Care series, this resource list provides details of family finding organisations.

Part of the Key Resources in Foster Care series, this list gives information about resources on the issue of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care.

Part of the Key Resources in Foster Care series, this resource list is aimed at anyone setting up or running a foster care association.

This guide looks at why it is important for sons and daughters of foster carers peer support groups to exist, as well as giving an overview of how to establish groups, and organise and sustain them. Available in England and Welsh.

This presentation from the Fostering Network's 2011 annual conference about the Fostering Changes Training Centre provides some handy tips on how to give a child positive attention.

Presentation from a workshop at the Fostering Network's 2011 annual conference.

The workshop explored how foster carers can take on the values of social pedagogy and learn how to build relationships with children that offer a very different experience.

It looked at the theories, qualities needed and how they are applied in effective and empowered fostering.

Findings of the project on contact completed in 2011, and practical guidance around contact.

This guide aims to help fostering agencies engage more effectively with their male foster carers by raising awareness of the challenges they face whilst exploring the ways in which they acknowledge and support men.

Written for the Delegated Authority Project by the Family Rights Group.

The workbook from a series of workshops run by the Fostering Network in England showcasing good practice in support for foster families. Includes an overview of some of the types of support currently available to foster families and the difference it makes. It also includes case studies from a number of organisations that presented.

Published as part of the Fostering Network's All You Need to Know Series, this guide is for everyone who is thinking about becoming a family and friends foster carer and for those who are family and friends foster carers already.

Recognising the unique situation of family and friends carers, this comprehensive resource book gives them all the information they need. Clear, practical and accessible, it sets out the process of becoming an approved foster carer, explains the legal and financial implications and offers guidance on managing behaviour and safer caring.

This Signpost booklet provides a guide to different meetings about children and young people: what they are for and how they are run. It explains the difference between a review and a case conference, and carers' rights to attend these or other meetings.

This report presents the findings from discussions with experienced foster carers regarding their perceptions of how children in Foster care could be encouraged and supported in their academic achievements beyond post compulsory education.

Report of the Hard to Reach Foster Carers project, forming part of a toolkit supporting the implementation of the Training, Support and Development Standards for Foster Care.

Summary report of the delegated authority project which ran from 2009-11.

The executive summary of a report that explores the key attributes, aspirations and challenges for local foster care associations across England. The full report is available to download at www.fostering.net/all-about-fostering/resources/reports/reinforcing-networks.

Over the past 20 years the task of fostering has changed almost beyond recognition. The needs of many of the children who come into foster care have increased dramatically, requiring a more skilled approach from those who look after them.