When organisations come together with a shared purpose, some fantastic things can happen. That’s what Liverpool City Council fostering service and their local John Lewis store have set out to do, as the Council aims to recruit more foster carers in the city. We hear from Liverpool’s fostering team about their joint efforts and plans for the
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Courtney is a care experienced young person who nominated her foster carers, Pauline and Jimmy, for the Northern Ireland Foster Care Awards last June. She explains how their unwavering support helped heal her past and give her hope for the future 

Mervyn Erskine is chair of trustee's at The Fostering Network and a full-time foster carer. He kicks off Foster Care Fortnight™ with a special thanks to everyone in our #FosteringCommunities and shares his feelings about being part of the community himself 

We were pleased to see that the Government’s recent strategy in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care provided the biggest investment in fostering into date. It also outlined changes which will make an immediate difference to the lives of children and young people in foster care, such as the above inflationary increase to the national minimum allowance.  

Despite these positive changes, we feel that there are still things missing from the strategy that need to be addressed which will have our continued focus. In this blog, we pull out the key things missing that our members have called for from the start of the review.  

Fiona has been fostering for over six years now, after originally seeing an advert on television years before she decided to seriously consider the role. Fiona speaks about her experiences of fostering and how the support she receives helps her to be the best foster carer she can be.