Practice Support Consultant - South West of England (PT)
Salary: £28,014 - £42,861pa (pro rata) Dependent upon experience
Partnerships Officer
Salary: £22,138 - £35,318pa
Data and Administration Assistant
Salary: £19,147 - £27, 341 plus a homeworking allowance per annum
New Income Tax & National Insurance webinar dates for 2022!
The member feedback we received from the Income Tax & National Insurance webinars we ran in 2021 stated that the webinars were very helpful.
We now have new dates for your diaries! Sign up and join us on any of the following dates:
Tues 15th March - 10.30-11.30am
Weds 22nd June - 10.30-11.30am
Weds 14th September - 19.00-20.00pm
Tues 8th November - 10.30-11.30am
Each webinar lasts for 1 hour and includes a Q&A session.
What makes a hub home carer – an insight into the Mockingbird role
Every Mockingbird constellation is led by a hub home carer in partnership with a liaison worker. These roles are unique in foster care, building a community and supporting whole families. Wendy, a hub home carer in Wigan, tells us how she got into fostering and what her hub home carer role requires.
Communications and Marketing Assistant
Salary: £19,147 - £29,254pa plus £3,964pa London Weighting allowance (if applicable)
The time to act is now, or we risk failing our children and young people completely
This week sees the launch of The Fostering Network’s State of the Nation’s Foster Care 2021 report, which brings together the views of both foster carers and fostering services to highlight what’s working – and what isn’t – in the sector today. Here, our chief executive, Kevin Williams, reflects on the report's findings and what we must focus on in order to make foster care the best it can be.
Invitation to ‘Focus on: Freedom vs Responsibility – getting the balance right in children’s social care.
In England, the Independent Review of Children's Social Care will be having a panel discussion on Thursday 9 December, from 5.30 – 6.30pm. Josh MacAlister, chair of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, will be joined by an expert panel to consider the question:
Freedom vs Responsibility – How to get the right balance in children’s social care
This question is one of the ‘three dilemmas’ that the care review has been grappling with, outlined in a previous blog here:
Mis- and under-representation of Black people in fostering
Speaking to Black foster carers Fiona, Ingrid and Paulette make one thing very clear; all three of them love fostering and are immensely passionate about making a difference to young people’s lives. But they also want to make foster care the very best it can be.
Here they tell us about their experience of fostering and share their thoughts around the stigmatisation of Black children in care, matching and the recruitment of Black foster carers.
Read blog 2 here: Enabling Black children in care to own their identity and thrive
