Blogs Fostering

Category: Advice and support for foster carers

• Black History Month Recipe: Jollof Rice

  Foster with Bucks, 08 September 2022 - Advice and support for foster carers

  

  Jollof Rice is a colourful rice dish that originates from Ghana and Nigeria, but is celebrated across all of West Africa, and is a sure hit with family and friends.

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• Fostering while working Full-Time as a Teacher – This is How I Manage to do Both!

  Foster with Bucks, 12 August 2022 - Advice and support for foster carers

  

  Sarah and her husband Rich both work full time and have been fostering for nearly 3 years. Sarah is a primary school teacher and spoke to us about how she juggles a full-time career with caring for two sisters long-term.

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• Long-term Buckinghamshire Council Foster Carer, Maggie, shares her experiences of Fostering teenagers

  Foster with Bucks, 05 August 2022 - Advice and support for foster carers

  

  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

  Foster with Bucks, 04 August 2022 - Advice and support for foster carers

  

  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

  Foster with Bucks, 02 August 2022 - Advice and support for foster carers

  

  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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