This month focuses on Viral Online Challenges; raising awareness and offering guidance. Viral Online Challenges – dangerous or harmless? Over the past years there has been increasing popularity in children…
The Fostering Stocktake Report, undertaken by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers, has mentioned The Foster Care Co-operative in the Independent Fostering Agencies from the Voluntary Sector section (p.64). The…
Ed Mayo (far left) with staff from The Foster Care Co-operative The Foster Care Co-operative was visited by Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, on Thursday 1st February. He…
Anyone can suffer from mental health problems at any time. In fact, according to The Mental Health Foundation, one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health…
This month focuses on Our Digital World as parents and carers and explores 'sharenting' online. A January blog always feels it should be about something new to mark the New…
This month I am writing about the viral #MeToo campaign on social media and asking us to be aware of the impact of this on our children and young people.…
This month I have delivered training to Foster carers and staff at our Yorkshire Support groups on Live Streaming and I thought it would be helpful to share a summary…
Skyrocket, the organisation set up by The Foster Care Co-operative, The Children's Family Trust and Community Foster Care has made it into our local press (Worcester News and Malvern Gazette).The Worcester…
The Foster Care Co-operative has joined forces with The Children’s Family Trust and Community Foster Care in an unprecedented move - to offer unique training that will cut costs and…
Every year, The Fostering Network - one of the UK’s leading fostering charities - launches a campaign called ‘Sons and Daughters Month’. The campaign celebrates the role of ‘birth children’ in the…
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