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Steve’s fostering story
Foster Parent Stories
After a 30-year career in retail, Steve’s fostering story began, alongside his wife Tina, they decided to foster children who needed a loving and stable home after realising ‘what’s important’ in life.
Sandras Fostering Story
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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.
Caroline and Kennys fostering story
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“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.
Shanice tells her short break fostering story
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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.”
Stevie and Mhairi’s Fostering Story
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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.
Harriet and David’s fostering story
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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”.
Foster parent Yvonne urges other black people to consider fostering this Black History Month
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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.
Ian’s fostering story
Foster Parent Stories
Father of six foster children reveals how he knew something was missing before he started fostering. Find out more.
Caz’s Fostering Story
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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.
Nicola’s fostering story
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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.
Yvonne’s Fostering Story
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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.
Angela’s Fostering Story
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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.
Steve’s fostering story
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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.
Emma and Mike’s fostering story
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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.
Liz and Tom’s fostering story
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Read about Liz and Tom’s first placement, an emergency placement for a 15 year old boy called Amir from Iran.
Tracy and Ian’s fostering story
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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.
Julie’s fostering story
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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.”
Cathy and Graham’s fostering story
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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.
Lisa and Martin’s fostering story
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Lisa and Martin are experienced foster parents who fostered with an independent fostering agency for 2 years prior to joining Fostering People.
Julie and Phil’s fostering story
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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.
Steve and Sandra’s fostering story
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Read about Steve and Sandra’s fostering story.
Louise and Andrew’s fostering story
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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.