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  • The Fostering Network Wales is holding a focus group for foster carers to look at the challenges they face in helping children and young people lead normal lives while keeping them as safe as possible in an increasingly digital world.

  • The Fostering Network is disappointed, now more detail is emerging, to discover that foster carers living in social housing who foster two or three children will still be penalised under the housing benefit reform from 1 April.

  • The Fostering Network is delighted that the Government has reconsidered proposals which would have penalised foster carers if they claim housing benefit in privately rented and social housing property from April.

  • The Fostering Network is looking for everyday people to don a cape or a costume and become a super hero for a day to raise vital funds for the charity.

  • The Fostering Network, alongside other children’s charities, has today written to Iain Duncan Smith MP, the minister implementing the so called bedroom tax, and Chancellor George Osborne MP, asking them to reconsider the decision not to exempt foster carers from under-occupancy penalties.

  • The Fostering Network is delighted to be supporting the second annual LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week. The awareness week is running across the UK from Monday 4 to Sunday 10 March.

  • Figures out this week from the Welsh Government showed that the number of children living with foster families in Wales has increased for a ninth year in a row, putting even more pressure on a system already grappling with a shortfall in foster carers.

  • The Fostering Network’s continuing campaign on behalf of foster carers who may be affected by the implementation of housing benefit reform has caused the Government to look again its impact.

  • We have welcomed the publication of a new prospectus from the Department for Education (DfE) outlining how local authorities and independent agencies can bid for financial support to run a range of evidence-based initiatives to help looked-after children, those on the edge of care and their families.

  • The Fostering Network is today encouraging foster carers in social housing, who also claim housing benefit, to contact their fostering service to see what effect the housing benefit reform will have on them.

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