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…
Category Archives: Fostering
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The many joys of life as a foster carer
Foster carer, feature writer and photographer David Bocking talks about his experience fostering for Sheffield City Council. One of the first thing a Foster Carer learns is that foster children don’t…
Blog: Advocacy for Care Experienced Young People
A blog on advocacy for care experienced young people by Luke Rodgers. Luke Rodgers is the Director & Founder of Foster Focus, starting his life in care – he like…
Young people design tool to support foster care placements
Young people in Sheffield have created a board game to enable social workers, residential staff and foster carers to think about what makes a good foster care placement. Young people…
Government says IRO role will not be scrapped
The role of IRO (Independent Reviewing Officers) will not be scrapped as suggested in the national fostering stocktake which was published earlier this year. Foster Care in England Review, carried…
