Christmas message from the Fosterline Co-ordinator Steven Stockley – Christmas In Care – Christmas can be and should be a magical time for children, but many of our fostered children and young people find this time of year very stressful and difficult. All around on social media, television, billboards and advertising we promote the vision […]
Recipe For Success
Back in October of this year Thomas Insje was recognised as a truly outstanding individual as he was FosterTalks recipient of the Young Persons Foster Carer Award. This award was presented to him by Lorraine Pascal and Minister Edward Timpson. He is an inspiration to all birth children whose parents foster and only after he […]
THREE QUARTERS OF LOW INCOME FAMILIES SAY CHILDREN’S HEALTH HIT BY COLD HOMES
Wednesday 14th January saw the national charity Turn2us release new research uncovering the extent to which families are struggling to afford their energy bills and the impact this is having on their health and wellbeing. A huge 78% of low income families struggled with their energy bills in the last year, with children’s health and […]
Fosterline’s launch of evening phoneline advice a success
Fosterline began the New Year by introducing evening sessions every second Wednesday of each month. We recognised the need to be able to provide advice when foster carers need it. During the busy activities of the day some foster carers are unable to access the invaluable support and advice offered by our online advisors due […]
HELP INFORM AND INFLUENCE POLICY AFFECTING FOSTERING
Housing Benefit:- We have received numerous enquiries to the Fosterline advice and support service around the subject of Housing Benefit and the reduction there of. We have been able to report back to the Department for Education on matters such as this and welcome the opportunity presented to our users to make comment on the […]
Ministers Letter to All Foster Carers
5th February 2014 Letter from Edward Timpson MP to all foster carers in England Edward Timpson, Minister for Children and Families has today written to all foster carers in England to advise them about the government reforms that are planned to help make it easier to work as a foster carer. These reforms include: *New […]
Staying Put Good Practice Guidance
July 2014 saw the publication of the “Staying Put – good practice guide”. The transition into adulthood is difficult enough for any child let alone a young person moving from care to independence. Many young people in the care system can have very disjointed progress often behaving as an adult in many complex situations and […]
Parliamentary Health Select Committee inquiry into child and adolescent mental health and CAMHS
This is an important opportunity to contribute evidence in relation to the particular health needs of looked after children, care leavers and children adopted from care and the barriers to addressing them fully. In the light of concerns that have been expressed by the Chief Medical Officer and others about both the extent to which […]
‘Self-harming is a huge concern in fostering’: Foster carer describes lessons learnt
Self Injury Awareness Day March 1st 2014- Self-injury or self harming is when a person deliberately hurts themselves physically to deal with the emotional pain they are suffering. When it comes to self-harm, cutting is thought of as the main way people hurt themselves. But burning, bruising and scratching are amongst other methods used by […]
DfE releases “The Children in Care Research and Priorities Paper”
Today the Department for Education published a paper which set out what the department thinks the important research questions are for Children in care. This paper is part of a suite of Research Priority and Question Papers which cover all the department’s key policy areas. Researchers, and those who work in education and children’s services, […]