Media release archive

Media releases for Wales:

• Leading charity challenges Welsh councillors to take responsibility for children in care
  Local councillors across Wales are being encouraged to take on the responsibility they hold as legal parents for children in care, as part of a new campaign from the Fostering Network Wales.

• Hundreds more foster carers needed in Wales this year alone, charity warns
  At least 370 new foster carers must be recruited across Wales during the next year alone in order to provide more children in care with the homes they need, top charity the Fostering Network is warning today at an event in Cardiff (12 May).

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008 Wales launch: new campaign asks 'do you have the qualities to foster?'
  A major national campaign is being launched by the Fostering Network Wales on 12 May to encourage more people to consider whether they have the qualities to foster.

• More male foster carers needed as positive role models for children in care, says top fostering charity
  Male foster carers should be celebrated as vital role models for children in care, many of whom have had negative experiences of men, the Fostering Network Wales will say this week.

• Foster carers in Wales need allowances to make ends meet, says the Fostering Network
  Many foster carers in Wales will be left struggling to cover the costs of fostering until the Assembly Government introduces a compulsory minimum allowance, warns leading charity the Fostering Network Wales.