Stories and News
First day at a new school for a fostered kid
Tuesday 31 August 2021
A foster carer shares a story of a child's first day at a new school, and their insights into ways of helping a child feel less anxious or worried about the 'big day',
What about your own children?
Monday 12 April 2021
Foster Carer Phil blogs about the role of birth children within a fostering family.
Phil's Blog - Fostering and Lockdown
Tuesday 05 January 2021
I wonder what you’ve missed most in ‘Lockdown’? Whatever your situation, I’m sure your life has been limited over the last year. Until that child came to live with us, he had lived in a permanent “lockdown". I know my family made a difference to his life.
We got our first Christmas all wrong!
Tuesday 15 December 2020
Phil tell's us why they got their first Christmas as a foster family wrong and how now it’s become a tradition to consider the ‘true meaning of Christmas’.