by FosterTalk Admin | Feb 2, 2023 | News
A raft of improvements have been announced today from the government to support vulnerable children and young people to remain cared for within their family networks where possible and where not, to increase the availability of foster homes through recruitment of and...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 30, 2022 | News
Sixteen-year-old Rhys Anderson is a fantastic talker. Sitting on the sofa in his living room, he’s waxing lyrical about his friends, the fire pit he helped build over summer, how he knows bits of “pretty much every language there is” (“well, English, Welsh and...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 22, 2022 | News
Coram Voice and National Youth Advocacy Service have published a report on the views of care-experienced children and young people on recommendations set out in the independent review of children’s social care. The report summarises feedback from over 80...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 22, 2022 | Blog
Yvonne shares her story with us as she has been a foster parent for 30 years and has cared for over 80 children in that time from very short term to over 14 years. She is a birth mum to 3 daughters and has 5 grandchildren. She has an adopted 19-year-old who has autism...
by FosterTalk Admin | Dec 14, 2022 | News
Increasing numbers of emotionally troubled children have been taken into care while waiting long periods for NHS treatment because their condition deteriorated to the point where their parents could no longer cope with their behaviour, child protection bosses have...
