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Category: Latest news Date: December 21 2020

Fostering People hosts virtual Santa visits to bring festive cheer to children

Fostering People will be hosting virtual Santa visits to bring festive cheer to foster children who may not make it to his grotto this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Category: Latest news Date: December 14 2020

Fostering People’s Reverse Advent Calendar

Our West Midlands team are making Reverse Advent Calendars for local charities, helping out families in need this Christmas.

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Category: Latest news Date: December 14 2020

Children's Christmas Cards 2020

Fostering People is bursting with artist talent, and this shows it's self every year with our annual Christmas Card entrees.

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Category: Latest news Date: December 14 2020

Christmas Gingerbread Competition

Children and Young People at Fostering People have been keeping themselves busy preparing for Christmas with a wonderful online 'Bake Off'.

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Category: Latest news Date: November 10 2020

20 years of Fostering People

Fostering agency celebrates their 20-year anniversary after delivering decades of support to family’s lives

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Category: Latest news Date: May 14 2020

Duke of Edinburgh Awards, leads to a trip to the Palace!

In 2018 Fostering People established its first Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme for young people in our Yorkshire region.

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Category: Latest news Date: May 11 2020

Art work by the fabulous Middlesbrough artist Martin Blaney

A local Middlesbrough artist Martin Blaney has very kindly given Fostering People some of his wonderful art work for children to colour in whilst in lock down.

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Category: Latest news Date: July 19 2019

2019 Carer Survey Results Fostering People in England

We've recently asked our foster carers to complete a survey letting us know what they think about Fostering People across the whole spectrum of our service and we are please to be able to share the results with you.

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Category: Scotland Date: July 19 2019

2019 Carer Survey Results for Fostering People Scotland

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Category: Latest news Date: June 3 2019

Fostering People receives top grades from Ofsted for third time

Nottingham-based Fostering People, a leading independent fostering agency, has received critical acclaim from Ofsted for its latest inspection.

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Category: Scotland Date: March 14 2019

First Minister visits Fostering People Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland attended Fostering People Scotland’s Starfish group to meet with a group of children and young people to hear about their experiences of being Looked After in foster care.

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Category: Latest news Date: February 8 2019

Foster Carer Wins Volunteer of the Year Award

Fostering People foster carer Geri Brown was awarded North West Volunteer of the year 2018 from Barnardo’s in recognition of the work that she has done as an Independent Visitor.

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Category: Scotland Date: January 24 2019

Top Grades for Fostering People Scotland

Fostering People Scotland, has received the Care Inspectorate’s top grades for its latest inspection.

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Category: Latest news Date: January 21 2019

Fostering People holds event to share best practise for combatting child sexual exploitation

Fostering People, recently held an event at The Acklam Green Centre in Middlesbrough, aimed at combatting Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in the region.

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Category: Latest news Date: August 29 2018

Foster carer’s receives ‘Love your Garden’ make over nominated by the young people they have cared for

Fostering People foster carers, Fiona and Karl were featured on the UK most watched gardening programme, ITVs ‘Love your Garden’.

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Category: Latest news Date: August 20 2018

Supporting to reform services for children with disabilities in Jordan | Fostering People

At Fostering People we were delighted to be given the opportunity to share our disability knowledge and practice with the Jordanian Government when we were approached by Lumos (a charity set up by J.K Rowling with a mission to end institutionalisation around the world by 2050).

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Category: Latest news Date: August 14 2018

'A Picture is worth a thousand words' book launch

Two foster siblings from Middlesbrough have been named the winners of a national photography competition, launched by Fostering People, a collection of best photos from the competition feature in this new book launched on 19th August to coincide with World Photo Day.

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Category: Latest news Date: July 11 2018

Latest News from Mockingbird

The latest News from Mockingbird is brought to us by Luisa, the Mockingbird Liaison Social Worker.

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Category: Latest news Date: May 25 2018

Fostering People launch new fostering model named Mockingbird

Children, foster carers and staff in our East Midlands area gathered with a representative from the Fostering Network to launch our first ever constellation of Fostering People’s Mockingbird Project.

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