The Foster carer blog

Sarah & Levi* reached a HUGE 10 years of fostering with The Children’s Family Trust. In order to celebrate the milestone and their incredible longevity, we gave them the keys to the website and asked them to blog exactly how…

Sarah & Levi* reached a HUGE 10 years of fostering with The Children’s Family Trust. In order to celebrate the milestone and their incredible longevity, we gave them the keys to the website and asked them to blog exactly how…

Everything you need to know from Practice Team Manager, Liz Oldfield. We sat down with our South East Practice Team Manager, Liz Oldfield to discuss the in’s and out’s of fostering a parent and their child. In this post you’ll…

No margins for error. Any organisation that works with young people must be held to high standards of practice. This is why OFSTED scrutinise the procedures that ensure the safety of not only the young people but our foster carers…

Societal prejudice that exasperates trauma As a population we often forget that children are in care through no fault of their own, and we brand them with societally held prejudices that exasperates their trauma. Their actions when experiencing trauma (and…

Fostering a parent and child is an extraordinary commitment, one that involves providing a safe and nurturing environment for both, providing a valuable space for growth and reunification. A specialist form of fostering, as a foster carer for parents and…

A message to our carers from CEO Marina this festive season! Dear all, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Christmas and to thank each and every one of you for your continued hard…

Saving you valuable time and energy Former CFT foster carer Peter Stamford of Moor Mortgages has a new service all aimed at saving foster carers time and stress when the time comes to sort their mortgage out Foster carers often…

There’s a 33% increase in care-leaver homelessness* Its time to improve policies to support care leavers. Become Charity, an outstanding organisation supporting children and young people in care and as they leave care has published their response to the Government…

The notion that any of us with a spare room and a willingness to support young people is enough to become foster carers highlights the two very basic requirements to become carers. But we see from the numbers of those…

Learn more about fostering for our Outstanding charity Have you ever considered fostering, but weren’t sure where to start? Do you want to know how you can support foster carers who continue to work? Do you want to hear directly…