Fostering & Kinship Care
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I have a real bee in my bonnet about fostering and kinship care.
Basically, I think they are brilliant! They are under-rated, under-funded and, most of all, under-appreciated.
So I wanted to do my bit to make information available that might be useful to both groups of people. Here goes:
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Foster Care
I’ve written a few blog posts on foster care, including this one…
Foster care information…
Here’re some info links that might be useful…
- Website: The Fostering Network – the go-to place for support on info for foster carers…
- Website: British Association of Adoption and Fostering – great for all kinds of resources and info…
- Flowchart: fostering assessment & approval process…
- Practice guidance: Fostering for Adoption…
- Info for gay & lesbian potential foster carers and adopters…
Kinship Care
I’ve written a couple of posts on kinship care – maybe start with this one…
More info for kinship carers
- Website: Kinshipcarers.co.uk – the go-to place for all kinds of info…
- Website: Grandparentsplus.org.uk – championing the wider family who care for children… Click for the support network…
- Website: Grandparentsasparents.org.uk (GAP)
- Website: Family Right Group – keeping children safe in their families…
- Report: Spotlight on Kinship Care report from ButtleUK – download here…
- Gathering: Kinfest – an annual get together of those caring for children from their own families…
Misc…
- Fostering regulations and guidance, here…
- Regulations, statutory guidance & national minimum standards for children’s services (Wales) – here…
- National minimum standards (England), here…
Please let me know if you know of resources you come across that might help others – thanks!
