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  • The Fostering Network respond to the House of Lords report on adoption
    Wednesday, 19 December, 2012

    The Fostering Network is delighted that the House of Lords believes that ethnicity should be taken into account when placing children and young people in placements and support their assertion that is does not cause significant delays in placing a child.

  • Long-term fostering consultation responses needed
    Tuesday, 18 December, 2012

    The Fostering Network is calling for your views on long-term foster care. We are running two consultations; one for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and a separate one for Scotland where legislation is different, and your views will help us present key issues to policy makers in all four nations. Any member of the Fostering Network is invited to participate.

  • Concerns over boarding school recommendations
    Friday, 14 December, 2012

    The Fostering Network has expressed concerns at recommendations from the Policy Exchange that more children in care should be given the opportunity to attend boarding school.

  • This week at the Care Inquiry
    Thursday, 13 December, 2012

    The Care Inquiry, a collaboration of eight charities including the Fostering Network, has now held two out of the three evidence gathering sessions before a report and recommendations are made for improvements to the care system in early spring 2013.

  • Get in the Frame for Foster Care Fortnight 2013
    Friday, 7 December, 2012

    We are inviting foster families, fostering services and prospective foster carers to Get in the Frame for Foster Care Fortnight 2013.

    For next year’s campaign we will be turning the media spotlight on fostering by encouraging people to put themselves in the frame and start the journey to becoming a foster carer.

  • Foster care in Wales needs overhaul, charity warns
    Thursday, 6 December, 2012

    Foster care in Wales is in urgent need of an overhaul to prevent children being unnecessarily moved around the system, the Fostering Network Wales is warning today.

    The call comes with the publication of Fostering: 10 years on, a new report from the leading charity outlining how foster care has changed in the past decade and the challenges it faces to continue to meet the needs of Wales’s most vulnerable children.

  • Big Lottery funds new project in Northern Ireland
    Wednesday, 5 December, 2012

    The Fostering Network Northern Ireland has been awarded almost £400,000 by the Big Lottery Fund to run a range of services and activities aimed at helping young people in foster care.

    Children and young people who come into foster care and subsequently leave have many challenges to face and this money to create new services and activities will help them with these difficult aspects of their lives.

  • Last chance to respond to Government consultation
    Friday, 30 November, 2012

    This week is the last opportunity for members of the Fostering Network to submit your views on the Department for Education’s proposals on the assessment and approval of foster carers, sharing their fostering records, changing foster carers’ terms of approval, and delegated authority in England.

  • Member discount for foster care recruitment conference
    Wednesday, 28 November, 2012

    The Fostering Network has negotiated a special discount rate for members to attend Recruiting foster carers: tackling delay, the third annual conference by Neil Stewart Associates taking place in London on Tuesday 11 December.

  • Senedd visit to celebrate charity's 10 year anniversary
    Tuesday, 27 November, 2012

    Today the Fostering Network Wales is visiting the Senedd so that Assembly Members can sign a birthday card to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Fostering Network Wales.

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