Tag: foster care
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Foster Care Workers Union’s Statement on Government’s Child Social Care Plans
Friday 22nd November 2024 The government announced this week its new plans to address the children’s care crisis, outlining proposals to keep more children with their birth families, to invest Ofsted with powers to fine providers, and to consider introducing caps on children’s home profits. Not only do these plans show the government’s failure to
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More than just a spare room and a big heart – #ThisIsFostering
John (not his real name) is a foster carer in Scotland. With The Fostering Network’s annual 2 week “celebration of fostering” in full swing, he has written a frank account about the realities of fostering. The present crisis has highlighted the conditions that care workers work under – the phenomenal task they undertake and the
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What happens when a foster carer gets sick
The Foster Care Workers Union speaks with foster carers facing difficult situations every week and one of the issues we hear about regularly is the dilemmas people face when they become ill. We have members who have postponed important operations as the timing didn’t suit the needs of the young people and others who have
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Really!!
You probably shouldn’t write blog posts when you are angry but today that is exactly what I am going to do. This morning one of our members forwarded me an email where writer had suggested that this foster carer wouldn’t need any support with the lovely but very high spirited 5 year old girl she
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Our New Office
As many of you will know the IWGB opened its first office outside of London at the end of May. The great news for Scottish foster carers is that it is in centre of Glasgow right next to Central Station for very accessible for our members who need help and advice. As I’ve said before
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Why Join the Scotland Foster Care Workers Union?
When I first started to work as a foster carer I would have never believed that I would one day join a trade union for foster carers, never mind become the chair
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