Welcome to Fostering: A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer

by Andy Elvin (Editor), Martin Barrow (Editor), Bev Pickering (Contribution by), John Simmonds (Contribution by), Jon Fayle (Contribution by)

Overview

What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.

Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could I make?

Comprehensive and accessible, this is the companion for first-time fosterers or those considering foster care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784504809
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	05/08/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Andy Elvin is CEO of the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, TACT. Martin Barrow is an experienced journalist, formerly News Editor of the Times, PR, Huffington Post, foster carer and foster care commentator/blogger.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. So you want to be a foster carer?. 2. Becoming a foster carer. 3. How do children become fostered?. 4. What's it like to be a foster child?. 5. Your first placement. 6. Behaviour management. 7. Allegations, how to handle them and what to expect. 8. Managing contact. 9. Working with the professional network. 10. Special guardianship orders. 11. Well being. 12. Endings. 13. What difference does it make?. 14. Heroes of the state.

Editorial Reviews

It's the book I wish I'd had when I was considering fostering and in my first few years.

Maxine Taylor

This is a great guide, packed full of information and insight about how best to navigate the world of fostering.

Isabelle Trowler

This is an important and timely book, which sets out both the challenges and the achievements of foster carers' day-by-day work.

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Laming

This beautiful quote will stay with me forever:

"Always make sure they have a blanket when they leave. Don't wash it, as it needs to have a familiar smell to help them settle. Even our 16-year old took a blanket with her."

Dr.h.c Jenny Molloy