Year: 2023

With thanks to the thousands of foster care families across the country, many children have a festive time of year in a warm and welcoming family.

Foster care at Christmas can be non-stop too, just take the above and add in one, two, or four extra children in a new home, adjusting to a new life adventure.

Have you ever considered becoming a foster carer for a parent and child? Parent and child foster placements involve fostering of a parent and their child.

For 2 million in the UK including many foster carers, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a weakness that really sucks. SAD symptoms include feeling tearful.

We would like to pay tribute to some of the fantastic extracts from the carers at Footprints Foster Care, advocating why Footprints is the right decision.

Foster children in particular may be reluctant to open-up initially, but the more you make it a routine, the more natural it will become for them.

There are circumstances like barriers or stereotypes when someone enters the foster care system. We follow the same approach when recruiting for foster carers.

Jjump back from holiday freedom to classroom formality? Fear not though, at Footprints we’re here to help you and your children beat those back to school blues.

To be a foster carer, need some natural talent. Some people will love it, others find it’s not for them. Just like the local councils, we’ll always be honest.

This series aims to answer some questions about fostering and gives you a guide from personal carer extracts to what fostering with Footprints can provide.