Category: News

10 March 2017

  It was great to be invited to attend an International Women’s Day event, hosted by Barclays Bank at the Liberty Stadium Swansea. International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This particular event was not only in celebration of the day, but also focussed on the career development…

22 January 2017

Over the last decade the world of fostering has changed. Foster Carers’ roles have become increasingly professionalised and challenging, and at the same time, the nature of many Independent Agencies, whose support is so important to their carers, has also changed – often not for the better. There was a time when many Independent Fostering Agencies were founded…

16 December 2016

We have been busy preparing decorations for a special Family Fostering Partners Christmas Tree. All of the decorations have been hand made by staff, carers, young people and friends of the agency and our tree will be on display at St Mary’s Church, Cardigan as part of their Community Christmas Tree Festival. The festival was launched on Saturday…

9 September 2016

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Anne-Marie Evans who joins Family Fostering Partners as a Senior Supervising Social Worker. Originally from the Swansea area, Anne-Marie now lives with her husband, their three year old daughter and one year old son in the Ammanford area , where she will be a familiar face to many foster parents…

17 August 2016

We are hugely proud to announce that we are on the All Wales Framework Agreement Relating to the Provision of Foster Care Services for Children and Young People. This news is important to for both existing and potential foster carers. The All Wales Fostering Framework (South and Mid Wales) consists of only 15 providers spread across three tiers.Not…

10 June 2016

Hot from our success at Gung Ho, Family Fostering Partners fielded a strong team of both staff and foster carers to compete in the Welsh Dragon Boat Championship. (The combined age of our team was over 700!!!). This was one of a series of events that has raised a significant amount of money for the Paul Satori Foundation,…

10 June 2016

On a wet and muddy Saturday morning the Family Fostering Partners team set off on a 5k race through a Cardiff park, to tackle huge inflatable obstacles. It was a great opportunity to publicise fostering and talk to lots of people about the need for more foster carers. There were some of the team who saw it as…

10 June 2016

It has been said (rather unkindly I think) that Judith has the perfect face for Radio and this was put to the test recently when Family Fostering Partners were offered the opportunity to discuss fostering and the need to recruit new foster carers on the Jason Muhammed show on Radio Wales. Judith was accompanied by one of our…

28 April 2016

It is a bit off our patch but if you want a fun day out in the capital come and support our team. We are all taking part in Gung Ho, an event based around a huge inflatable “Total Wipeout” -style course set out over 5k. Teams will be tackling giant inflatable obstacles including the 48ft-tall slide, dodging…

23 October 2015

Is being a foster carer a job, a vocation, a profession or all of these things? Defining exactly what fostering is, can be the challenge that makes recruiting foster carers a difficult and expensive task, and is one of the reasons why Wales has such a shortage of foster carers. This shortage of carers makes matching child and…