Compassion Fatigue in Foster Care: How Carers Look After Themselves
Caring for a child who has been badly hurt takes something out of you. Here is what compassion fatigue looks like, a five-minute self check-in, and the support that helps foster carers keep going.
Child Exploitation and County Lines: What a Foster Carer Can Actually Do
Child sexual exploitation and county lines explained plainly for foster carers: what the grooming pattern actually looks like, what to do the night a child goes missing, and why the law treats an exploited child as the victim.
Safeguarding and Safer Care at Home: What It Actually Means Day to Day
What safer care actually looks like day to day, and what goes in a safer care agreement. Plus an honest answer on allegations: the real numbers, how the process works, and what the 2026 reforms do and do not change.
Fostering a Child With ADHD: What Actually Helps
Waits for an ADHD assessment now run into years. Here is what a foster carer can do in the meantime, the changes NICE actually recommends, and where our own older advice about food turns out to be wrong.
What Therapeutic Fostering Actually Means
There is no agreed national definition of therapeutic fostering, so the label matters less than what comes with it. What it usually means in practice, the support you should expect, and why you do not need a psychology qualification to do it.
When a Foster Child Tells You Something
What if a child tells me something terrible and I say the wrong thing? Here is what actually helps in the moment, what to write down, who you tell, and why a child telling you is usually a sign your home is working.
Fostering a Child with OCD: What Actually Helps
A child who washes until the skin splits is not being fussy. What OCD looks like in a foster home, why reassuring a child can quietly make it worse, and how to get help in London.
Care Proceedings and the Family Court: What Actually Happens
Within weeks of a child moving in, a court date lands in your diary. Here is what care proceedings actually involve, how long they really take, and the handful of parts that fall to the foster carer.
Worried a Young Person Is Being Drawn Into Extremism?
The signs of radicalisation look a lot like being fifteen, which is what makes them hard to read. Here is what tends to change, what Prevent actually is, and why a referral does not give a child a criminal record.
Knife Crime and Gangs: Talking to a Teenager You Care About
Knife crime is falling nationally but London still has the highest rate of any police force area. Here is what the law actually says, what you would realistically notice at home, what to do if you find a knife, and what your rights are if your young person is stopped and searched.