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If you’re a relative or friend stepping up for a child, should you apply to be a foster carer—or seek a kinship route such as a...
Matching isn’t just finding “a spare bed.” It’s the careful process of aligning a child’s needs, history and plans with a foster family’s skills, capacity and...
Becoming a foster carer involves plenty of school runs, contact sessions, medical appointments, clubs and last-minute meetings. It’s natural to wonder whether you must drive to...
Short answer: yes. You can foster while claiming Universal Credit (UC). Fostering allowances/fees are ignored when UC is worked out, and if you’re the main foster...
The short answer: yes—your identity is not a barrier What the law and practice say today In the UK, your sexual orientation or gender identity does...
If you’re thinking about fostering and you have a criminal record, the short answer is: often yes—but it depends on the type of offence, how long...
If you’re new to fostering (or thinking about applying), one of the first practical questions you’ll have is: how often will social workers come to the...
Short answer: yes. Thousands of UK foster carers successfully combine fostering with raising their own children. In fact, many assessing social workers see the presence of...
When you foster, you open your home and your heart—and you also work inside one of the most closely-regulated spaces in children’s social care. Allegations can...
Short answer: for most standard fostering placements, there’s no statutory maternity or paternity leave. The big exception is Fostering for Adoption (sometimes called concurrency). If you’re...
