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Letitia recently raised over £400 for The Fostering Network by taking part in a charity boxing match. She explains why making sure children and young people have a place they can feel safe is something worth fighting for.
Over the past 40 years, Lorina and Dervin have looked after more than 280 children. We find out what’s kept them fostering and why they’ve no plans to stop any time soon.
From 2008-2022, the number of people Ticking the Box more than doubled – but there is still a long way to go.
This week, we’re running our #TickTheBox campaign during National Care Leavers Week from Monday 28 October – Sunday 3 November. Our campaign aims to provide information and resources about specific support for university and college to care experienced young people, foster carers, other carers and people in the lives of young people with care experience. Read below to find out more.
Throughout October we've been celebrating incredible children of foster carers and everything they do to support children and young people joining their families. Liv has shared her experience with us.
Throughout National Care Leavers Week we’re raising awareness of support and resources available for young people with care experience and their foster carers to help them apply for college or university. Foster carer Jacqueline has shared her experience with us.
Throughout National Care Leavers Week we’re raising awareness of the importance of care leavers ticking the box on their UCAS applications to indicate they have spent time in care. Broadcast journalism student Jessica-Rae has shared her experience with us.
Genevieve and her husband Neil have been fostering for three years. They have one birth child, William, aged 9, and are fostering two siblings, aged 8 and 14, on a long-term basis. To mark Children of Foster Carers Month, Genevieve has shared some tips for those considering fostering, but are apprehensive about how their birth children might adapt to the change.
Chief executive of The Fostering Network Sarah Thomas reflects on her experiences at The Labour Party Conference 2024.
In 2021, foster carers Debbie and Jason founded The Raft, a charity that provides help and support to care experienced families. Here, Debbie tells us about their work, and how they’ve been using Lego, to help care-experienced children develop their communication skills, confidence and social and emotional wellbeing.
Abandoned as a baby, Fatima Whitbread spent the first 11 years of her life living in a children’s home. She explains how she survived, became a world class athlete and now works to help other vulnerable children and young people to feel seen and heard.
