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All you need is a spare room

Last year a local authority was forced to issue an apology after it launched a recruitment campaign for foster carers, using the slogan “all you need is a spare room”. You can see what their intention was, but it was rather tone deaf. That same slogan popped up on my Facebook feed this week. “All …

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Let Them Eat Baked Beans – is there something in the UNICEF report for us all?

After several years of struggle we were lucky enough to get help from a brilliant social worker specialising in fostered and adopted children.  If I could boil his message down into one easily digestible mouthful it was this: spend every moment you can with your children, it will help them to feel secure and will …

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