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Month: April 2024

Can I Foster Siblings With An Independent Fostering Agency

12 April 2024

Unfortunately, there is a desperate need for more individuals and families to become foster parents. This is especially true when it comes to fostering siblings and finding a safe and nurturing home for more than one child. As an independent fostering agency, we work with every local authority across Wales and offer a number of different forms of…

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Foster Caring & Sustainability For Foster Family Agencies

12 April 2024

Sustainability and reducing our environmental impact have become fundamental principles guiding many aspects of our lives. From corporate giants to individual households, the drive to reduce our environmental impact is growing. At Family Fostering Agency we’re acutely aware that our role in helping to care and shape future generations through foster caring means that we have an additional…

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How to Become a Foster Parent if You Live with ADHD

10 April 2024

The NHS describes ADHD in the following way; ‘Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that affects people's behaviour. People with ADHD can seem restless, may have trouble concentrating and may act on impulse’, however those with ADHD know that this brief overview does not fully explain the idiosyncrasies of what it is like to live with ADHD.…

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Is Foster Care in Wales the Same as Abroad?

8 April 2024

As an experienced foster care agency in Wales, we often get asked how foster care in Wales compares to fostering abroad. In this blog post, we'll explore this question and shed light on the unique aspects of fostering in Wales, while also highlighting some universal principles that underpin foster care practices across the world. Understanding Foster Care in…

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How To Maintain Self Care When You Become a Foster Carer

8 April 2024

Deciding to become a foster carer is life-changing, not just for you as a foster carer, but also for the children that you will be looking after. Foster caring is a role filled with compassion, challenges, and immense rewards. At Family Fostering Partners, to enable our foster parents to be at their best, we encourage them to prioritise…

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Thinking about fostering?

Whether you have questions, want to learn more about fostering, or are thinking about becoming a foster carer, get in touch with us.

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How to Foster a Child and Involve Your Extended Family

When you’re exploring how to foster a child, it’s natural to focus on the immediate changes to your household. But fostering isn’t just about the support one foster parent, or one fostering household provides, it can also be an opportunity to build a wider circle of support. Your extended family…

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Why You Don’t Need to Be Perfect to Become a Foster Carer

When people think about fostering, they sometimes believe they have to be ‘perfect’, perfect parents, with perfect homes, perfect families, and perfect lives. But at Family Fostering Partners, we want to reassure you that fostering is about being real, not perfect. Children requiring foster care need safe, stable, and loving…

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