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.
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.
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Reviews
This is an important and timely book, which sets out both the challenges and the achievements of foster carers' day-by-day work.
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."
This is a great guide, packed full of information and insight about how best to navigate the world of fostering.
It's the book I wish I'd had when I was considering fostering and in my first few years.