Our Foster Care Blog

Becoming a foster carer is a life-changing decision – not just for the young person you’re welcoming into your home, but for you as the carer and for your family and support network, too. Like anything else we do in life, foster caring comes with highs and lows. There can be challenges and [...]

The first thing you need to know about becoming a foster carer is you’re not alone. There's a wealth of foster [...]

If your foster child is using recreational drugs, like cannabis, it can be difficult to know how best to support [...]

What is a systemic approach to family fostering? Find out what it means and what it looks like in practice, here.

Sheila, a Foster Carer with LiKa for 3 year, talks us through her learning and development in therapeutic parenting [...]

Would you believe teenagers are the most difficult age range to place? Probably. Society and the media do not [...]

Croydon foster care agency’s have as many as 380 children brought into care and placed each year because of [...]