Northern Ireland specific

Join us for our Education and Learning Conference 2024 - Continuing the Journey

Wednesday 9 October 2024 9:30am-1:00pm

This year our annual conference will take place on-line. For more information please see attached flyer. To book your place click here

Fostering Kinship Support is one of a range of innovative programmes that The Fostering Network runs to improve outcomes for kinship families.

For more information about Fostering Kinship Support telephone The Fostering Network in Northern Ireland on 028 9070 5056 or email Nikki Gregg. 

Northern Ireland Foster Care Awards 2019

The Fostering Network's annual Northern Ireland Foster Care Awards recognise and celebrate the contribution individual foster and kinship carers make towards the lives of children in foster care.

This year's awards ceremony will be held on Saturday 16 November in Titanic Belfast. Nominations for this year's awards are now closed.

2018's awards

2018's ceremony took place in the Hilton Hotel, Belfast on Saturday 12 May 2018.  

About Step Up Step Down

The programme gives parents the support of a foster carer who can ‘step up’ if the family needs additional support and ‘step down’ when parents are in a better place to support their children. 

Fostering Achievement was one of a range of innovative programmes that The Fostering Network runs to improve foster care and outcomes for fostered young people.

​For media enquiries regarding Fostering Achievement email The Fostering Network's media team or phone 020 7620 6441.

Find out the current numbers of fostered children and foster carers in Northern Ireland, as well as our latest recruitment targets, or read more about fostering legislation in Northern Ireland.