News articles relating to our fostering support services that WillisPalmer operates nationwide through a diverse team of around 300 qualified social workers, all of whom have a minimum of seven years post-qualifying experience; 20 years on average.
Blog: Fostering and Attachment
By David Bocking: Fostering and Attachment
Our new baby is a walker. She arrived fairly suddenly, we had a call in the afternoon and then there she was with her social worker, just before teatime, a little girl who couldn’t yet talk faced with two people she’d never met who she was going to [...]
She's our foster baby!
If you’re a baby, you should be aware that being seen out on your own with a proud looking man in his fifties will raise eyebrows. Grandparents with babies generally come in pairs, although female-only elder companionship is also common when parents are busy working.
Friends of the man in question will often do a [...]
Over 8,500 foster carers required in UK to meet demand
More than 8,500 foster carers are required across the UK next year, The Fostering Network has warned.
Taking into consideration factors such as the percentage of the foster carer workforce leaving each year and the change in the numbers of children in care, the charity states that more than 8,500 foster carers are needed to look [...]
Foster carers to sue Surrey Council over Parsons Green bomber
A couple who have been foster carers for 47 years are taking legal action against Surrey Council after they placed a child with the couple who made a bomb and left it at Parsons Green station.
Penny and Ron Jones, who have fostered 269 children for the council and been awarded MBEs for their services, claim [...]
Rewarding? That description doesn't come close
Rewarding? That description doesn't come close.
In the latest in his series of blogs, foster carer, feature writer and photographer David Bocking talks about his experience fostering for Sheffield City Council.
When she arrived, our second foster baby was weak and pale and poorly. She had a viral infection along with severe feeding problems, and life [...]
The Big Question when you are a foster carer
Foster carer and journalist David Bocking on his experience of when foster children move on.
When you’re telling your friends about your cute temporary infant, they all eventually ask about what is known in the trade as the ‘transition’.
“How will you feel when he/she moves on?” they say, sometimes in a whisper in case the youngster [...]
