One group of women that often go unrecognized are foster carers in the UK, who provide a safe and nurturing home for children in need. Foster carers are individuals or couples who offer their love and support to children who, for a variety of reasons, cannot live with...
One group of women that often go unrecognized are foster carers in the UK, who provide a safe and nurturing home for children in need. Foster carers are individuals or couples who offer their love and support to children who, for a variety of reasons, cannot live with their birth families. These...
I have fostered some lovely young people, of all ages. My last young person T left me 5 years ago...
I check emails and sort my to do list before I get my family out of bed, followed not long...
I take a first look at my emails for anything that has come in overnight that might need my...
My days are pretty varied and never dull. Profession wise, I say I am a foster carer and I consider my work is fostering. However, I have other varied roles which I incorporate into my day, and I feel I have good balance in my life. Alongside fostering young people, I foster dogs too via Dogs Trust. I volunteer for Essex police, and I am involved in the local neighbourhood watch as well as being a restorative justice facilitator. During lockdown, I also volunteered for my local vaccination centre, and will continue to squeeze a shift in when I can. My days, therefore, are pretty varied, and rarely dull.
From the age of three I was always dressing up as a nurse, and with my toy nurse’s bag, my play generally revolved around bandaging and injecting my lined-up teddy bears. Not too surprisingly, I then became a nurse and worked full time, until recently at the age of 53, when I became a foster carer.
Covid challenges aside, 2021 has been a positive year, with two awards for our agency and the publishing of two new books last Spring, by Lisa Cherry and Dr Karen Treisman, that we contributed to. We have loved working with all of our foster carers and supporting some great young people, who despite their initial start in life have shown amazing levels of resilience. Equally we have some terrific sons and daughters of our foster carers who have supported children and young people in their families, we are so proud of them all.
