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15 March 2016 | Fostering News
Why not walk to support fostering on Sunday May 15?
If you fancy doing a bit of leg work to support fostering, you might be interested in Foster Walk 2016. The Fostering Network is organising a series of family-friendly sponsored walks across the UK, one of which takes place in Cheltenham on Sunday May 15...
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25 January 2016 | Fostering News
Educational Progress of Looked After Children, University of Oxford
The Educational Progress of Looked After Children in England: Linking Care and Educational Data This research project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, was jointly undertaken by the University of Bristol and the Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford...
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12 January 2016 | Fostering News
Why do we let fostering agencies profit from caring for vulnerable children? by Andy Elvin (TACT), The Guardian Social Care Network
Recent research from Corporate Watch shows that in 2014/15, eight commercial fostering agencies made around £41m profit between them from providing foster placements to local authorities. This is pure profit...
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8 January 2016 | Fostering News
Over 9,000 more fostering households urgently needed during 2016, The Fostering Network
A growing number of new fostering families is needed during 2016 to ensure the provision of stable, secure and loving homes for the record number of fostered children in the UK, according to figures published today by The Fostering Network...
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9 November 2015 | Fostering News
'The children were fine': acknowledging complex feelings in the move from foster care into adoption
Child psychotherapists, Sophie Boswell and Lynne Cudmore, recently published some research entitled 'The children were fine: acknowledging complex feelings in the move from foster care into adoption'...
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