Plymouth City Council’s Fostering Team is ready to celebrate Foster Care Fortnight this week. Foster Care Fortnight (9 to 22 May) is the UK’s biggest foster care awareness-raising campaign, delivered by leading fostering charity, the Fostering Network. ...
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Recruiting Foster Carers for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)
Plymouth City Council is supporting the need to help look after and provide a home for children and young people who cannot live in their home country and who no longer are in the care of their parents or relatives. Most of us will recognise the language Unaccompanied...
Plymouth Foster Carer Dinner and Dance.
Plymouth City Council really values their foster carers and this year wanted to have an appreciation Dinner and Dance to show how much they are truly thought about. A lovely evening was had on the 26th November where we entertained over 80 guests. Our hosts...
Our first public-facing event for 2021.
On the 18th and 19th of September Foster for Plymouth held their first public-facing recruitment event. There was lots of excitement to be able to be outside talking all things fostering with the Plymouth public. In preparation, we had lots of things to give away such...
Could you foster a teenager?
As part of the Foster for Plymouth journey, our aspiration is to have all our care experienced children living with our foster families. There is an increase in needing foster families to support teenagers. Many of our young people have aspirations to be part of a...
Foster for Plymouth supports this year’s Foster Care Fortnight
Social workers from Plymouth City Council’s Fostering Service and foster carers are encouraging everyone who cares about the lives of children in care to step up and tell the world #WhyWeCare as part of this year’s Foster Care Fortnight campaign. Foster Care Fortnight...