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Real life fostering 💬 Meet our foster parent Jason
This month we spoke with one of our foster carers, Jason, 51, who lives with his wife in Norfolk. As a couple, Jason and Liz have been fostering for nearly nine years with AFA, and here we explore their journey into fostering, and some of the challenges they have...
Real life fostering 💬 Meet our foster parents Julie & Craig
This month we spoke with one of our fostering families, Julie, 56, and Craig, 51, who live in Norfolk. As a couple, Julie and Craig have been fostering for nearly two years with AFA, and here we explore their journey into fostering, and some of the challenges they...
Fostering during the new reality
As the social-distancing rules have been relaxed, we take a look at how our own foster carers coped with and adapted to the Covid-19 lockdown, and how it affected children in their care. Some carers are trying to recreate the school day to give some structure. For...
Black Lives Matter
All at AFA abhor racism and all forms of discrimination. This article is not an attempt to promote AFA on the back of Black Lives Matter. We do, however, recognise the importance of continually pushing to change and that change has been needed for very many years. We...
A message from our directors on Covid 19
As a business we feel quite fortunate in the current crisis that we are an essential service delivering to the public sector and are able to continue to operate without disruption, something many businesses have not been able to do. Children in Local Authority Care...
Why does fostering require a spare bedroom?
There are lots of people who would dearly love to foster. Many possess the right skills and aptitude, but are disappointed to find that they cannot go forward to assessment because they do not have a spare bedroom to offer for fostering. In this article, we will try...
Guidance on Covid 19 for foster parents
You will no doubt have found a lot of information on the internet on this subject, but here are some key links which will give you information and help: General Advice on Covid-19 Government guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19) for health professionals and other...
Parent and Child Fostering: Can You Help?
Over the past year, there has been an increase in the number of babies being taken into local authority care. In some cases, where mothers have continued to abuse substances during pregnancy, babies are born addicted to drugs or alcohol. That’s why at AFA Fostering,...
5 Ways Christmas Might Be Different for Fostered Children
As we head into the new year, all of us at AFA Fostering, along with our busy foster parents, are getting ready for Christmas. For many, it’s a time of big grocery shopping trips, school plays, hanging festive decorations, lots of mince pies, secret Santa...
Why Are Case Records and Logs So Important to Young People?
Barnardo’s has one of the largest collections of archives and records about children in the world, dating from the 1870s to the present day. This archive holds thousands of files and photographs of children and young people who were looked after by the charity, either...