Simply Fostering News Autumn New Union Formed for Foster Carers The first foster carer trade union was formed on 19th September in Parliament by a group of current and former foster carers. The workers voted in favour of unionising and the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) was launched. Present at the meeting was
Why I Never Turn Down a Chance to Learn Cathy Mayes Continued professional development, training and learning: It’s all in the word. “Continued” suggests that you will carry on doing it; just as training suggests that you will be taught it, learning and development suggests that you will take it away and develop it. And
Simply Fostering News March 2015 LGBT Fostering and Adoption Week More lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are needed as foster carers in Wales. The campaign drive, which follows a report on how LGBT carers feel concerned about how foster children, social workers and agencies may react to their gender, coincides with LGBT Adoption and
Simply Fostering News May 2015 Call for Teachers to Foster Teachers in the Dorset area are being asked to consider becoming foster carers. People who are currently teaching or who have taught in the past could make ideal candidates for fostering. Skills such as being adaptable and being able to listen to a young person
Simply Fostering News July 2015 Scheme enables Young People to stay in Foster Care until 21 Reforms have been introduced across Wales which mean that young people who are in foster care will be able to remain with foster families until they reach 21 or 25 if they are in training or education. The announcement was
Fostering children Inside out Have any Foster Carers taken their children to see the recently released film by Disney/Pixar ‘Inside Out’? It received mixed reviews from the psychological community with some saying it was helpful and others saying it misrepresented the working of the brain and emotions. In brief it is about Riley, a teenager
Simply Fostering News June 2015 Foster Care Fortnight 2015 Foster Care Fortnight 2015 was launched on 1st June and will run until 14th June this year. The annual campaign, which raises awareness about fostering, is co-ordinated by the charity The Fostering Network and hopes to encourage people to foster a child. As part of this
Fostering News – February Charity Trek to Mount Kilimanjaro Employees at a fostering agency in the Midlands are taking on the challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for a new charity called The Rees Foundation. Staff at Foster Care Associates are hoping to raise in excess of £50,000. The charity has been set
Happy New Year to all our readers, from all of us at Simply Fostering! Annual Santa Cycle Local foster carers in South Wales took to the roads for a 15 mile ride in the Cynon Valley, dressed in Santa outfits, for the annual Santa Cycle organised by Fostering People. The agency, which is based in
Long term fostering and adoption Long term fostering and adoption are very similar, but have some key differences. In this article will be a brief summary of what the two are, and how and why they differ. When someone decides to foster, they are providing family life for someone else’s child when the child can’t
