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A pioneering programme which has so far prevented 194 children from entering the care system will launch in Wales this week.
Step Up Step Down, which is run by the UK’s leading fostering charity The Fostering Network, is partnering with Pembrokeshire County Council to revolutionise the support given to families at risk of breaking down.
The aim of the Inquiry was to set out top line priorities for policy areas where change is needed. This is to ultimately make the biggest difference to the lives of children and young people.
They considered priorities for radical reform in the following three stages of the care system:
The UK’s leading fostering charity, The Fostering Network, has welcomed the Welsh Government’s commitment to create a national register of foster carers, having campaigned for this for many years.
Yesterday the Government published its response to the Children, Young People and Education Committee’s report: ‘If not now, when? Radical reform for care-experienced children and young people’. It agreed to work with Social Care Wales to scope and fund the delivery of a national register for foster carers.
Along with our partners at the Mortgage Brain, The Fostering Network is hosting a webinar for any foster carer who would like to learn more about the specifics of applying for a mortgage as a foster carer.
Understanding and applying for mortgages is difficult, and for foster carers this can be more difficult due to your self-employed status and issues surrounding income evidence.
For further information click link https://bit.ly/TFNmortgage
The Welsh Government have published details of a 5.5% uplift to fost
We welcome the recommendations set out in the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) final report published yesterday that sets clearer expectations at a national, regional and local level in England, Scotland and Wales to ensure that all children in care are living in placements that meets all their needs.
The Fostering Network is delighted to welcome Sarah Thomas as its new director for Wales and commercial activity.
The Independent Reviewing Mechanism (IRM) manages the process by which prospective or approved foster carers, can seek a review of a ‘qualifying determination’ made by a fostering provider. This includes local authorities and independent providers. Qualifying determinations are made where an agency is proposing not to approve an individual as a foster carer, or to terminate or make a change to the individual’s terms of approval.
