Whether you are an experienced foster carer or new to the role, you can certainly benefit from learning more about being a carer. For this, you would require proper foster care training by a reputable fostering agency.
A reputed fostering agency provides high quality service to children, foster carers, as well as local authorities. It provides [...]
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Best Foster Care Training With Fostering Outcomes
What Training Do Foster Carers Receive?
Training for foster carers is a priority because increasingly more is expected of them in terms of the complexity of children’s needs.
Preparation training is a pre-requisite of approval as a foster carer and this agency runs a four day “Skills to Foster” course which provides a basic introduction to fostering. The course includes topics such [...]
Foster Carers Can Use Play To Help Children In Their Care
The word”play” is used to describe activities of children from babyhood until the early teenage years. Play is explicitly recognised in the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child article 31 which states”Parties recognise the right of the child to rest and leisure to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the [...]
How I Got Into Being A Foster Carer
Hi, we are a couple from Reading who have recently become foster carers I am Alan and my wife is Sue.
Becoming a foster carer was not something I had ever considered before, as I had a career as a plasterer for most of my adult life. Sue on the other hand had talked about fostering [...]
The Qualities Of A Good Foster Carer
Fostering children brings rewards as well as challenges and training is essential if you are to do a good job, but there are certain qualities that make a good foster carer. Foster carers these days are looked on as fellow professionals and expectations of them are high.
First and foremost they need to have time and [...]