Sentence examples for fostering service from inspiring English sources

Busting myths about who can foster is vital to encouraging a range of different people to make that crucial first enquiry, says Staffordshire council's fostering service manager Amanda Fritz.

In addition to already adopted strategies, we plan to adopt the standards that will closer define fostering service, and we also plan to start a campaign to raise public awareness about the benefits and importance of foster care," Numanovic said.

For Joe, things have improved since 2000, as attitudes at his fostering service have changed and he feels more valued.

Two in five had looked after children temporarily because the fostering service could not find a suitable long-term home.

I watched the first two episodes of Protecting Our Foster Kids, a BBC series following Dorset County Council's fostering service, with some trepidation.

However, with a well-established adoption and fostering service, too, the charity did not immediately respond to the trend for greater provision of care within the community.

But there is a shortage of families willing to take on the challenge – the Fostering Network, the charity that supports fostered children and fostering families, estimates that UK fostering services need to recruit a further 8,370 foster families this year to meet rising demand.

Fostering services throughout the UK are struggling to find enough foster carers for teenagers.

That's why it's so important that fostering services find the right foster home for each child, first time.

It also urged Ofsted inspectors to look carefully at referral processes carried out by fostering services to help improve standards.

Fostering services that are prepared to pay and support their foster carers properly have shown that it is possible to recruit the number of foster carers needed, but unfortunately many still have to learn this lesson.