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.
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.
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.
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.