Media links relating to Fostering
Before you have children, it’s important to think about the finances. And that’s just as true for anyone considering becoming a foster carer. So, what are the allowances, fees, rewards and tax implications for those who welcome and care for a child in their home?
Felicity Hannah talks to foster carers Bryony, Walt, Dot, Phil and Jane about why they foster and their experience of the finances of fostering.
They are joined by an expert panel: Vicki Swain, Head of Policy and Campaigns at the charity The Fostering Network, Harvey Gallagher, Chief Executive of the Nationwide Association of Fostering Providers, and Suzanne Griffiths, the director of Foster Wales, which is the national network of 22 Welsh Local Authority fostering services.
For more information about fostering, including the finances of looking after children, you can access the following: https://fosterwales.gov.wales/ https://www.nafp.org.uk/ https://www.thefosteringnetwork.org.uk/ And you can listen to an earlier edition of Money Box Live about Carer Leaver finances here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00139km
Baroness Casey, Louise Casey, continues her series looking at the challenges facing whoever wins the next general election.
In this third episode Louise asks how we can do better for children in care. Reaching back to 2007, she hears how one tragic case and the political and media response to it produced unexpected results throughout the system. She asks what prevents governments taking a comprehensive approach to the problem. And as she speaks to care experienced people and hears how they saw Scotland's independent care review as a step forward, she examines what is preventing progress on implementing it.
Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering hosted by Al Coates and Scott Casson-Rennie
Adoption and fostering chat with people who’ve done it, from the UK’s LGBTQ+ adoption and fostering charity, New Family Social.