Blogs Fostering
Category: Advice and support for foster carers
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Long-term Buckinghamshire Council Foster Carer, Maggie, shares her experiences of Fostering teenagers
Maggie, a Bucks foster carer of over 20 years, is currently fostering a teenage girl on a long-term basis. After three years of fostering exclusively teenagers, we asked Maggie about her experiences and what advice she had for people who find the thought of fostering teenagers a bit daunting.
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Sheila, a Buckinghamshire Foster Carer, shares her experience of fostering teenagers
In Buckinghamshire, we urgently need to recruit foster carers to care for older children and teenagers. We spoke to Sheila, who has been fostering teenagers with Bucks for 20 years, about her experiences negotiating social media, responsibility and independence when fostering teens.
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Short-term foster carer, Judith, shares her experiences Fostering siblings
In Buckinghamshire, we are in high need of foster carers for siblings to keep brothers and sisters together. We caught up with one of our short-term foster carers, Judith, to ask some questions about her experiences caring for brothers and sisters with Foster with Bucks.
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