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  • Call for increased flexibility for foster carers combining fostering and work
    The Fostering Network is calling on fostering services and employers in England to help increase the range of skills being brought into fostering by providing flexible working conditions for foster carers, in a new report published today by The Fostering Network.

  • Let's go with The Fostering Network Wales!

    The Fostering Network Wales is to launch Let's Go, which is aimed at improving health and wellbeing, strengthening fostering placements and encouraging children into sport, in early 2015. 

  • Call for support into employment for care leavers in Wales
    The Fostering Network in Wales has today submitted a response to the National Assembly’s Enterprise and Business Committee Inquiry on assisting young people into work, and has called for a renewed focus on support into employment for care leavers in Wales.

  • Autumn Foster Care magazine out now

    The latest edition of Foster Care magazine has been rattling through letter boxes across the UK in the last week.

  • Children’s minister backs educational campaign

    Children’s minister in England, Edward Timpson MP, has thrown his support behind a new campaign led by The Fostering Network in partnership with Achievement for All, aimed at improving educational outcomes for London’s fostered children. 

  • The Fostering Network receives national award for campaigning

    The Fostering Network’s campaigns team, who led the successful Don’t Move Me campaign, has received a ‘highly commended’ award at the 2014 Charity Times Awards.

  • Additional support ‘key ingredient’ for academic success

    The Fostering Network has today launched this year’s ‘Tick the Box’ campaign, which is urging care experienced young people to access the additional support available to them at university, at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. 

  • Head, Heart, Hands reaches halfway point

    As the Head, Heart, Hands programme has reached its halfway point, we are gathering evidence from the participating fostering services about the positive impact that social pedagogy is beginning to have on the lives of children and young people and the foster carers and other professionals who support them. 

  • Foster carer training consultation in Scotland

    The Scottish Government is seeking foster carers and fostering services views on pre and post approval fostering training and are calling on them to respond to a consultation that is now available on the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) website.

  • Comment on permanence response in England

    Following today’s publication of the Government’s response to the consultation on looked-after children: improving permanence in England, The Fostering Network’s policy manager Madeleine Tearse said: “The Fostering Network welcomes the Government's decision to strengthen long-term foster care as a permanence option. Long-term foster care is the permanence option of choice for many children, yet it has not previously had the status or support it requires. The legal changes proposed will help to reinforce security and stability for many fostered children.