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Safer Caring is a unique practical guide to creating an environment that safeguards children, young people, and those that care for them.

As well as advice on how look after those who have been, or may have been, abused Safer Caring address the best ways to minimise the risk of allegations being made against carers. Its focus is on creating a caring environment that allows all members of the family to feel protected. Emphasising the need to Stop, Look and Listen when dealing with children and young people, it explores the challenges involved in caring for children at home, and offers realistic solutions.

This second edition has been comprehensively updated with substantial additions, including a new chapter focusing on the challenges and concerns raised by modern technology. Safer Caring covers essential areas including:

• how to address past abuse
• exploring your own attitudes and beliefs
• developing a family policy
• the role of suns and daughters of foster carers
• preparing for a new placement
• record keeping
• the challenges posed by modern technology, including mobile phones and the internet.

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.