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A foster mother’s love

A foster mother’s love

When Mother’s Day Hurts For children who have been removed from their birth families due to abuse or neglect, emotions around Mother’s Day can be incredibly complex. Some may still long for the mother they are unable to be with, despite the harm they may have endured....

A foster mother’s love

When Mother’s Day Hurts For children who have been removed from their birth families due to abuse or neglect, emotions around Mother’s Day can be incredibly complex. Some may still long for the mother they are unable to be with, despite the harm they may have endured. Others may feel anger,...

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What does success look like 

What does success look like 

Our role is to ensure our foster carers are successful. If our foster carers are successful so are the children and young people we care for.

When we set up To the Moon and Back Foster Care, we wanted to be a locally supportive fostering service. Establishing ourselves in Kings Hedges in Cambridge, our lovely office is a hub for the carer communities we work with, but we also hold meetings and learning events in the localities where our foster carers live, reducing the need for traveling long distances. Likewise, we work with local staff, ensuring that our support team can spend longer on our carers sofas than sat in their cars in traffic.

Our Transfer Process

Our Transfer Process

In 2023 we commenced an improved transfer process that has reduced the need for a further full assessment and takes considerably less time than the traditional transfer process. The beauty of the process is that it enables the building of a relationship, ensuring that...

What a difference 7 years have made

What a difference 7 years have made

Our purpose is to ensure that foster carers are successful.

Having founded To the Moon and Back Foster Care with Alison Kindred Byrne back in 2017 it’s been an amazing journey of developing a constantly improving organisation we can be proud of. Founded on values that remain as valid today as they did in the beginning, we have continued to challenge ourselves to do the right thing at the right time and dare to care deeply. Has it been easy? Absolutely not! Has it been worth it? Yes.. in so many ways!

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