by To the Moon and Back Fostering | Dec 8, 2019 | support
I asked Julie what their initial motivation to fostering had been and how their experience of the process of becoming approved to foster was for them. She explained: “Our initial motivation was based on the fact that we had room in our home, we missed family life...
by To the Moon and Back Fostering | Dec 3, 2019 | Relationships
Enabling children to create, maintain and sustain safe and positive relationships with different people lies at the heart of the work that foster families do. The role modelling of sustaining positive relationships in practice is an essential part of a foster carers...
by To the Moon and Back Fostering | Dec 2, 2019 | Trauma
Debbie shared that she and her partner had been fostering since August 2013 with another fostering agency before joining us. She explained that they had felt that certain aspects of standard parenting had not felt right: She said “from the outset with the two...
by To the Moon and Back Fostering | Dec 1, 2019 | Supervising Social Worker
We advocate strongly for our foster carers as required and support them to be the best version of themselves. Meetings that involve the bigger team around the children in our care take place regularly, it is part of my job to ensure that the foster carers are involved...
by To the Moon and Back Fostering | May 15, 2019 | Foster care Interview
Like many foster carers our carers had been thinking about fostering for a long time before they approached a fostering agency. Ten years is not uncommon in our experience but it can be shorter. The decision to foster is one of the most life-changing decisions a...
