The importance of promoting secure attachments with children.
As parents, when we build loving bonds with children, we develop ‘Secure Attachments’. These Secure attachments come from good or good...
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Information,Advice and Resources for
Foster Carers, & Adoptive Parents.
Suggested posts for New Foster Carers & Adoptive Parents.
These are the basics and will hopefully answer some of the questions you may still have. Even though you have been through your fostering induction or adoption training, I'm sure there will still be lots you are wondering about. I know there was when I started and for the first few years too.
The Secret Ingredient to Foster Parenting
There are so many problems when it comes to parenting, aren’t there? And Parenting a Foster child is no exception, and often much, much...
Do you Struggle to understand your child’s behaviour? Or your reaction to it?
All children have bouts of Challenging Behaviour. It can start with the terrible two’s, sometimes before and often into tweens and teens...
One Caring Adult
Oh My! You need to watch this!
Countdown Caterpillar
Does your child find the concepts of yesterday, today and tomorrow hard to grasp? Do they ask, "How many sleeps until...... ?
Why do children come into Foster Care?
There are many reasons why children come into foster care. They may have suffered physical, sexual or emotional abuse, neglect at home or...
Free Books
Free Books Sir John Timpson CBE has written three useful little guide books on Attachment, based on 30 years’ experience as a foster...
What do Foster Carers Do?
Probably, “what don’t we do” would be nearer the mark! Fostering entails doing what all parents do, but for other peoples...
How does Fostering fit with you and your family.
Foster children can and will place emotional, social and physical demands on you and your family. They will also bring, love and you will...
A call about a foster placement.
The ‘Placement Hub called. ‘I’d been expecting the phone call. The Session Worker explained that they needed a place for 2 young...
Information you need before agreeing to take a child.
The information you need should include an Initial Placement Referral form and a Care Plan for the child. We would not take a child...
Integrating a new child into your family.
Welcome to our home. Time is an important factor in welcoming and integrating a new child into the foster family. Introductions for the...
Meetings
There may be a lot of meetings to attend, but they are the support for you and your Foster Child. Meetings keep you up to date with what...
Keeping Siblings Together.
A child taken away from home will already be suffering from the separation and loss of parents and wider family. Loss of their own home,...
Relationships with Birth Families & Professionals.
Developing and maintaining good relationships with birth families is very important for the wellbeing of the child. Whether relationships...
The importance of taking things slowly.
It is really important not to expect too much, too quickly from the children we foster, but equally we want them to experience as normal...
Explaining Foster Care to Children.
Children come into foster care it is bewildering for them because they often don’t know why or what will happen to them. Due to ongoing...
Child Centred Caring
Child Centered caring means putting the child at the centre of all we do. Our planning, help, caring for them and our reporting back to...
Things I wish I’d known.
Photo by Eliabe Costa on Unsplash I understand how people new to fostering can feel. There are a few things, looking back with hindsight,...
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