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Myths and Facts of Fostering Children

Fostering has been in the news a lot recently. You’ve possibly seen recent stories talking about the ‘cost’ of placing children with independent fostering agencies being wildly more expensive than if the child is placed with in-house local authority carers. It seems that all independent fostering agencies are being tarred with the same brush. Unfortunately […]

Researching barriers for disabled foster carers

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Lee GreatBatch (Paralympian), Gail Granger (FCC) and Dr Peter Unwin (Principal Lecturer in Social Work) at the University of Worcester, celebrating the new research Groundbreaking Research: Overcoming Barriers for Disabled Foster Carers The Foster Care Co-operative (FCC) is working with Shaping Our Lives and the University of Worcester on groundbreaking research supporting the disabled community.

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