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Why Foster?
15/05/2025

Foster Care Fortnight Day 4: Why Foster?

7 Powerful Reasons to Foster Children Every child deserves the chance to feel safe, loved, and supported. Yet thousands of children across…

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21/03/2025

Helping Your Foster Child With Their Homework

In your role as a foster parent, you can actively support homework, which will benefit your child’s academic trajectory. Giving homework advice…

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27/09/2024

Applying to be a foster carer

Are you interested in fostering? Do you want to apply to foster with Beacon Fostering but you are unsure how to? During…

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Understanding DBS Checks for Foster Parents
27/06/2024

Can I work and be a foster carer?

If you are in work, whether this is self-employed or through employment, the area to look at here is if you would…

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25/06/2024

What are the types of fostering providers?

The provision of foster care for children and young persons to support their well being is from the hard work and commitment…

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19/06/2024

How to Switch Fostering Agencies?

One question we regularly get asked, is from foster carer’s who are interested in switching fostering agencies to join Beacon.  Switching fostering…

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05/06/2024

Promoting Fostering!

To build on the good work and activities from Foster Care Fortnight, we are keen to continue to raise the awareness of…

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24/05/2024

Foster Care Fortnight – Priankar’s fostering story

During Foster Care Fortnight, we thought we’d share some of our team’s favourite fostering stories. Below, you’ll see our Interim Registered Manager…

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09/05/2024

Foster carers required locally in Liverpool with an 11% increase in children in care over the past 5 years!

There is an estimated shortage of over 7,000 fostering families across England. Foster Care Fortnight, aims to highlight this need and promote…

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