Children’s Rights in Foster Care: What a Child in Your Home Is Entitled To
Nobody hands you a leaflet called Your Child’s Rights on day one. Here is what a child in care in England is entitled to, from care plans and reviews to advocacy, family time and the numbers to ring when something isn’t happening.
Helping a Foster Child Through Anger: What to Do in the Moment
Anger is one of the things people worry about most before they start fostering, and one of the things experienced carers talk about least. Here is what actually helps: spotting the build-up, holding steady in the moment, and what the rules really say about physical help and calling the police.
Fostering a Child With FASD: What Actually Helps
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is common among children in care and widely missed, and a child with FASD is often read as deliberately difficult. What the condition actually does, what helps day to day, and the one approach that reliably makes it worse.
When a Foster Child Is Being Bullied: What Actually Helps
Why a child in care is an easier target, what to say in the first ten seconds, what a school in England legally has to do about bullying, and how to complain when it does not. Practical help from a London fostering agency rated Outstanding by Ofsted.
Sleep and Bedtimes in Foster Care: What Actually Helps
Why a child who has just moved in often cannot sleep, how many hours they actually need, and the bedwetting advice to stop following. Practical help from a London fostering agency rated Outstanding by Ofsted.
Helping a Child Stay at Their Own School and in Their Own Community
Keeping a child at the same school, with the same friends and the same Saturday club, is one of the most useful things a foster carer can do. Here is what the law says, what you can ask a school for, and how the school run actually works in London.
Why London Needs More Foster Carers Right Now
More foster carers stopped than started in England last year, and 22% of children in care were living more than 20 miles from where they used to. London is holding steadier than any other region, and it is still short of homes.
Keeping Foster Care Records: What to Write Down, and Why
Recording is the part of fostering that sounds most like admin and turns out to matter most. Here is what belongs in a foster care record, what to leave out, and why five minutes a day protects both the child and you.
The Mockingbird Family Model: How Foster Carers Support Each Other
The Mockingbird family model links six to ten fostering households around an experienced hub home, so carers have someone to ring and children have somewhere familiar to stay. Here is how a constellation works, what the Oxford evaluation found, and what you can build without one.
Fostering When You Have Children of Your Own
Thinking about fostering but worried about your own children? Here is what they will share, how the assessment involves them, and the simple things that keep fostering working for the whole family.