Category: Foster parent stories Date: October 24 2024

Sandras Fostering Story

This month we’re sitting down with foster mum Sandra to hear about her experiences of cultural exchange within foster care and the wisdom she’s gained after almost 20 years of fostering experience.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: April 24 2024

Caroline and Kennys fostering story

“Kids don’t fit neatly in the boxes that society wants them in” Caroline and Kenny tell their fostering story and how they have never looked back.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: April 24 2024

Shanice tells her short break fostering story

Short breaks are a different type of fostering. “Putting a smile on the girls' faces and opening up their eyes to different experiences has definitely been the most rewarding part so far.”

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: April 22 2024

Stevie and Mhairi's Fostering Story

Newly weds Stevie and Mhairi talk about their lives, as they embark not just as a married couple, but from hoteliers to happy families: Meet the hotel managers on their new fostering journey.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: January 17 2023

Harriet and David's fostering story

Harriet and David tell how they left their public sector careers to foster, not once but twice, coming back to fostering during the pandemic. "There is nothing more rewarding than this".

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: December 20 2022

Wayne's fostering story

Wayne swapped his teaching career for fostering, but now combines both roles successfully. In his fostering story, Wayne tells us about what led him to fostering and his return to work as a SENDCo in a virtual school.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: October 17 2022

Foster parent Yvonne urges other black people to consider fostering this Black History Month

Whilst Yvonne appreciates that mixed ethnicity foster placements can and do work, she thinks it’s important that young black people in foster care have a space where they can grow into their own culture.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: June 19 2022

Ian's fostering story

Father of six foster children reveals how he knew something was missing before he started fostering. Find out more.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: March 25 2022

Caz's Fostering Story

Caz has been fostering for almost 10 years with Fostering People. Caz explains how she approaches motherhood and the differences between fostering and raising her own son.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: November 26 2021

Nicola's fostering story

Nicola, 43 and her husband, Richard, who are based in Redcar, have been fostering for three years and in that time, they have fostered three children who are siblings.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: October 14 2021

Yvonne's Fostering Story

Yvonne tells her fostering story in her own words, talking about the children she has looked after, what motivated her to foster initially back in the 1990s and her experience of caring for children with whom she didn't share the same culture and religion.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: July 9 2021

Angela's Fostering Story

Angela, 59, and her husband, Chris, 57, based in Nottingham, have been fostering vulnerable children for seven years and in that time, they have fostered 13 children.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: June 23 2021

Steve's fostering story

Steve 63, and his wife, Lorraine, 59, who are based in County Durham, have been fostering for seven years and have fostered three children who are siblings on a long-term basis ever since they were approved.

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Category: Childrens stories Date: March 19 2021

Kay's story reminding us how wonderful pets are.

Kay is a young person who has lived with her foster parents for four and a half years. She recently wrote an essay for school, both her teacher and her foster parents were so proud of her work.

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Category: Childrens stories Date: January 12 2021

Madison's Story

My name is Madison and I am 15 years old. I have been in care for nearly 6 years

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Category: Childrens stories Date: January 8 2021

Theo's Story

My name is Theo; I have been in care for close to six years and have noticed how dramatically my life has changed.

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Category: Childrens stories Date: December 2 2020

K's fostering story

This witty blog from a bright and insightful teenager in foster care with Fostering People, show just how much fun teenagers are, as K's describes her life and her relationship with her foster parents.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the East Midlands Date: November 10 2020

Toni and Graham Fosters' story

Twenty years ago, in the year 2000, Toni and Graham embarked on a new journey within the fostering care sector that has led them to become Fostering People’s longest fostering parents.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 28 2020

Emma and Mike's fostering story

Emma and Mike decided to join Fostering People following a recommendation from close friends who are foster parents with the agency. They liked the fact that they felt we would not just be a “number” and it had a family feel to the agency.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 28 2020

Liz and Tom's fostering story

Read about Liz and Tom's first placement, an emergency placement for a 15 year old boy called Amir from Iran.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 28 2020

Tracy and Ian's fostering story

Following a long career with the local authority, Tracy and Ian decided the time was right to make the move to an independent agency. “We attended training with foster carers from the independent sector and when they discussed the support they received, we realised it was possible to have a more positive fostering experience,” describes Ian.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 28 2020

Julie's fostering story

Julie has spent her working life in social care. “I’d been working as a manager for a number of years, spending more and more time on call, working long hours and becoming disillusioned. I wanted to do something different.”

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 28 2020

Cathy and Graham's fostering story

Before becoming a foster family, Cathy and Graham were formally an army family traveling across the UK. The couple settled in the West Midlands and started to look into adoption as the couple had been unable to have their own children, as Cathy explains.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 28 2020

Lisa and Martin's fostering story

Lisa and Martin are experienced foster parents who fostered with an independent fostering agency for 2 years prior to joining Fostering People.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the North East Date: September 28 2020

Julie and Steve's fostering story

Since joining Fostering People in 2008, Julie and Steve have experienced the full range of joys and challenges that fostering brings.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the North East Date: September 28 2020

Dennis and Linda's fostering story

With five birth children and ten grandchildren, Dennis and Linda had always been used to having lots of children around and, once their own children had left home, fostering felt like the next natural step.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the North West Date: September 28 2020

Katie's fostering story

Katie was a youth worker before becoming a foster parent. Katie explains she has worked in the community and a few of her friends were in foster care and this really motivated her to become a foster parent.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the North West Date: September 28 2020

Joanne and Stephen's fostering story | Fostering People

For Joanne and Stephen Phillips, 2012 was a major turning point in their life – it was the year they applied to become foster parents. For Joanne, this opportunity was exactly what she’d been yearning for.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the North West Date: September 28 2020

Tracy and Ian's fostering story

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Category: Foster parent stories in the East Midlands Date: September 28 2020

Andi's fostering story

"It was a day we would never forget, driving home from Nottingham after being approved as foster parents at our Panel meeting. We were on cloud nine, excited to get home to that chilled bottle of champagne in the fridge to celebrate our new vocation."

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Category: Foster parent stories in the East Midlands Date: September 28 2020

John and Yvonne's fostering story

After fostering for five years, Yvonne remembered the day they were approved as foster carers.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the East Midlands Date: September 28 2020

Julie and Mark's fostering story

Read about Julie and Mark's fostering story. They have been fostering for around 8 years now and have looked after children of all ages.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the East Midlands Date: September 28 2020

Emma and Mike's fostering story

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Category: Foster parent stories in Scotland Date: September 28 2020

Pat's fostering story

Pat has been fostering with Fostering People since 2015. Pat has worked with children for 40 years, most recently as a social work, working in education. But Pat wanted a change of direction and saw an advert for the Fostering People information evening.

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Category: Foster parent stories in Scotland Date: September 28 2020

Carol and John's fostering story

Carol first found out about Fostering People through a friend, who works as a social worker. “A friend told me about the information evening so I went along. When I got there, I found there was no hard sell, the event was relaxed and welcoming and I felt comfortable”.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 17 2020

Julie and Phil's fostering story

Julie and Phil have been fostering for a year which has seen them care for two parent and child placements, a sibling group of 3 on and an 11 year old boy on respite. Julie and Phil have found their experiences very different from each other and they have had their challenges, but continue to enjoy fostering.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: September 17 2020

Steve and Sandra's fostering story

Read about Steve and Sandra's fostering story.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the East Midlands Date: September 17 2020

Steve and Sandra's fostering story

Steve and Sandra become foster parents because they wanted to give a child or a young person an opportunity to be a part of their family and with their life experiences sensed they could offer a secure and consistent environment to enable a young person to thrive.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the West Midlands Date: September 17 2020

Jan and Dave's fostering story

Read about how Jan and Dave's experiences as foster parents to 2 girls, who are now on a long term placement with them both.

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Category: Foster parent stories in the West Midlands Date: September 17 2020

Sumera's fostering story

Read about Sumera's fostering story on how with support and guidance by her social worker and the team at Fostering People, helped her settle in quite easily as a foster parent.

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Category: Childrens stories Date: September 3 2020

Sophie's Story

Read about Sophie's story of being the eldest of 6 siblings and the reason why she came into care at the age of 12 years old.

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Category: Childrens stories Date: August 19 2020

Jack's Story

This story centres around a young 10 year old little boy in foster care with Fostering People who is confused about his gender and how his foster carer is helping him feel comfortable with his own identity despite his young age.

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Category: Foster parent stories Date: November 28 2019

Louise and Andrew's fostering story

Most children show great excitement at Christmas time and it can be a wonderful time for foster parents. But Christmas can be an overwhelming time for some foster children, as Louise and her husband Andrew foster parents from the East Midlands experienced.

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Category: Childrens stories Date: November 19 2019

Josh's fostering story

Can you imagine being over 2 years old, but having never left hospital? This was the reality for Josh but with the help of Fostering People he now has a family home to call his own.

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Fostering Stories & Case studies

Sandras Fostering Story

October 24 2024

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Caroline and Kennys fostering story

April 24 2024

“Kids don’t fit neatly in the boxes that society wants them in” Caroline and Kenny tell their fostering story and how they have never looked back.

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Shanice tells her short break fostering story

April 24 2024

Short breaks are a different type of fostering. “Putting a smile on the girls' faces and opening up their eyes to different experiences has definitely been the most rewarding part so far.”

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Stevie and Mhairi's Fostering Story

April 22 2024

Newly weds Stevie and Mhairi talk about their lives, as they embark not just as a married couple, but from hoteliers to happy families: Meet the hotel managers on their new fostering journey.

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Harriet and David's fostering story

January 17 2023

Harriet and David tell how they left their public sector careers to foster, not once but twice, coming back to fostering during the pandemic. "There is nothing more rewarding than this".

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Wayne's fostering story

December 20 2022

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