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Brexit and Child Care

Thousands of Foster Children Face Uncertain Futures After Brexit Coram, the leading children’s legal charity, has warned that thousands of EU children living in foster care across the UK are at risk of becoming the new Windrush generation if they are not given automatic British citizenship. They are concerned that, post-Brexit, vulnerable children could easily become undocumented in the same way as Caribbean children who arrived in the UK decades ago. It’s estimated that there are around 727,000 EU national children under the age of 18 living in the UK. Coram fears that the most vulnerable of these children, such as those living in foster care, will slip through the net of the Home Office’s new EU settlement scheme either... Read more →

Child Refugees | Fostering

Fostering Agencies Increase Pressure on Government to Help Child Refugees The Home Office has been accused of reneging on its promise to provide sanctuary to child refugees, as it emerges that foster agencies across the UK have made available dozens of placements which remain unused. The Guardian estimates that there are hundreds of agency placements available for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, in addition to the 1,400 offers from local councils that the Home Office stands accused of ignoring. According to the charity Safe Passage—who’ve already helped more than 1,800 child refugees—Wiltshire, Brighton and Hove, Leicestershire, Islington and Lewisham have each pledged to take at least 100 children. Britain’s largest fostering and adoption charity, Tact Care, has also told the Home Office... Read more →

“Foster Care News – Helping Your Foster Parenting Journey”

There are more than 62,000 children living with foster families across the UK and more than 9,000 new foster carers are needed every year. Find out more

Foster Carers are responsible for working in partnership with their Agency and Local Authorities to provide a safe, secure and nurturing family environment, allowing children to stay in contact with their own families if appropriate.

Carers are required for children and young people aged between 0-18 from a variety of different backgrounds, including specialised placements such as sibling groups, children with special needs and also parent and child placements.

You will need to have:
• The time and energy to invest in a child or young person
• A bedroom for the foster child
• Couples will need to arrange their working hours so that one carer can be available full time
• Single carers will need to be at home full-time, or have flexible, part-time and term time only employment or be able to work bank shifts
• Hold a full UK driving licence.
Better allowances, holidays, respite care, better matched and more regular placements, training, supervision, support.

Fostering role models

Foster carers and their families are often the only positive role models a child has experienced on his or her journey to make friendships, achieve a good education, improve their mental health and behaviour and make a positive contribution to society.

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