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This user-friendly guide explores how foster carers can help promote the physical, mental and emotional health of those they care for. It explores the issues surrounding medical responsibility and signposts organisations that can offer further support.

Pathways Through Fostering

The Fostering Network recognises that foster carers are skilled professionals and is committed to offering resources to help them develop their skills, knowledge and expertise.
Pathways Through Fostering is a unique post-approval professional development curriculum created by the UK's voice of foster care.

In consultation with our members and expert staff, and in line with new standards and developments in foster care, we have identified six core topics which, we believe, are crucial to both newly-approved and experienced carers. These are:

• Safer Caring
• Contact
• Managing Behaviour
• Health
• Education
• Attachment

Each topic is the subject of a publication and a training course. The two are closely linked and, while each can stand alone, we believe foster carers will benefit from both completing the training and having a copy of the publication to refer to at home.

The Pathways series places its emphasis clearly on practical, accessible information. Both the training courses and the publications focus on dealing with day-to-day challenges, not on complicated theory. Packed with helpful guidance and case studies, they will help foster carers to enhance their knowledge and develop their skills, in order to provide the best possible care for children and young people.