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Head, Heart, Hands - Aberlour Fostering

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Head, Heart, Hands was a UK-wide, three-year programme that aimed to improve foster care by enabling seven fostering organisations to explore a social pedagogy approach.

Lifelong Links

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

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Detailed searches are carried out to identify extended family for children in care.

Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings

Best Practice

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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Struggling council transforms how it commissions placements for children in care with the focus on reducing trauma and addressing complex needs.

How artists help children to explore their life stories

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work with artists to process their experiences in ways that improve their wellbeing and relationships.

IFA South Central Framework

Best Practice

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

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Councils and independent providers in southern England strike five-year agreement on managing foster care placements.

Keep Fostering - National Implementation Service

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Keep is a training programme that has been delivered to more than 2,000 foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians in England since 2009.

Guide helps foster better awareness of pet benefits

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

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Following uncertainty by children's services into whether looked-after children should be cared for in homes where pets are kept, a fostering expert has put together a guide to help councils develop more animal-friendly policies.

Foster care for adolescents with complex needs in Sweden

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Laurelle Brown visited Sweden in 2018 to assess how child protection services cater for the needs of older children coming into care and what the UK could learn in terms of support for foster carers.

Match Foster Care

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Aims to improve fostered children's placement stability and bring their outcomes into line with non-looked-after peers.

Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of child trauma.

How I Got Here: Geraldine Roseberry, foster carer

Best Practice

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

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Geraldine Roseberry reflects on 25 years as a foster carer.

Mockingbird Family Model

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Involves a "hub home carer" offering peer support, respite and social activities to a "constellation" of six to 10 foster families.

West Midlands councils’ films change script on fostering

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

A regional initiative that aims to boost foster carer recruitment has developed a new approach to attract applicants through a collaborative short film campaign.

Suffolk's therapeutic fostering team builds relationships

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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Specialist team at East Anglian council works with foster carers to enhance their therapeutic parenting skills.

Fostered children make film about their lives with care leaver Kriss Akabusi

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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Digital Life Stories project sees young people collaborate to create a video where children in care can share their experiences.

Mockingbird grows as foster carers value ‘extended family’ support network

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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A pioneering programme that nurtures relationships between children, young people and foster families to deliver sustainable foster care has seen continual growth in the UK.

Innovation for children in care

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

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Amid the multitude of challenges in working with children in care, a huge amount of innovation is taking place across the country. Charlotte Goddard examines three examples of excellent practice.

Foster carers make a connection at activity days

Best Practice

Monday, September 23, 2019

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Coram's Fostering Activity Days help prospective foster carers and children to get to know each other, leading to better matches for long-term care placements.

Regional sufficiency strategy controls costs

Best Practice

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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Councils collaborate to optimise the commissioning of placements, which has boosted the number of providers they work with and kept costs down.

Step-down service improves placement stability

Best Practice

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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In-depth assessments identify ways to support young people from residential homes into foster care delivering placement stability and reducing council costs.

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Head, Heart, Hands - Aberlour Fostering

Lifelong Links

Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings

How artists help children to explore their life stories

IFA South Central Framework

Keep Fostering - National Implementation Service

Guide helps foster better awareness of pet benefits

Foster care for adolescents with complex needs in Sweden

Match Foster Care

Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma

How I Got Here: Geraldine Roseberry, foster carer

Mockingbird Family Model

West Midlands councils’ films change script on fostering

Suffolk's therapeutic fostering team builds relationships

Fostered children make film about their lives with care leaver Kriss Akabusi

Mockingbird grows as foster carers value ‘extended family’ support network

Innovation for children in care

Foster carers make a connection at activity days

Regional sufficiency strategy controls costs

Step-down service improves placement stability

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