What's new?

• Fostering: a career that changes lives
  The Fostering Network, the UK’s leading charity for all those involved in fostering, will launch Foster Care Fortnight, its annual campaign to recruit more foster carers.

• Calling all foster carers - win a trip to Alton Towers
  Next May, the Fostering Network will be running Foster Care Fortnight - its annual campaign to recruit more foster carers.

• Statement on foster carers and smoking
  The Fostering Network believes that no child under five years old should be placed with non-related foster carers who smoke. This is because of the particularly high health risks for very young children and toddlers who spend most of their day physically close to their carers.

• Forgotten Voices silenced as project funding for Scottish young people in care ends
  Young people living in foster families in Scotland are having their voices silenced, the Fostering Network has warned, following the closure of a project designed to give them a chance to be heard.

• New contract launched to standardise care for fostered children placed in independent sector
  Children in care are to benefit from a new contract between local authorities and independent fostering providers (IFPs), which outlines expected levels of care for fostered children.