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May, 2006 stories
May 31, 2006
Education help for all children in care
Foster carers collect long service awards
Staffordshire in Bloom
On the bulletin board
May 30, 2006
Nell McAndrew is 'One in a Million' says NCH
May 26, 2006
Foster sector calls for reform in education
May 25, 2006
Carers welcome city's first fostering centre
'Being a foster parent is not easy but it is so rewarding'
Children's care home open
May 24, 2006
Blue Kangaroo at Royal Cornwall Showground
Foster Care Associates (FCA) fosters relationships across the water
On the bulletin board
May 23, 2006
Minister joins BAAF to celebrate success of unique adoption search and reunion website
May 22, 2006
Social care services are failing as corporate grandparents, new report reveals
Merseyside's foster care plight
Book Review
May 19, 2006
Foster child who repaid with love
Take the foster challenges
Council looks for loving parents
Book Review
May 18, 2006
Fostering services still have long way to go to master recruitment of foster carers, report reveals
Appeal for kids' breaks foster carers
Angie fostering hopes for future
Appeal for 50 foster carers
Book Review
May 17, 2006
Choose to make a difference
Volunteers needed to become foster carers
Foster care warning as crisis looms
Wanted: People with love to give
Foster carers are praised by county
Book Review
May 16, 2006
Aspiration and ambition:
Book Review
Learning to play for the first time
Book Review
May 15, 2006
We longed for another child to love and found the answer in fostering
Foster - it's a great way to help children
It's kids' stuff claims Lorraine
Book Review
May 12, 2006
Could you foster a city teenager?
Fears voiced by children's charities
County needs foster carers
Please give children a home and family
Children in care lose out at school
Book Review
May 11, 2006
Derby children need 40 more carers
Foster children enjoy leg up in life thanks to dedicated Graham
Appeal to meet the fostering challenge
One BIG happy family
Eighty homes still needed
Book Review
May 10, 2006
Fostered young people present minister with call for action
Is there a gap in your life?
Could it be you?
On the bulletin board
May 9, 2006
More carers needed to stop overcrowding in foster homes across Scotland
Charity in bid to buy own building
County's call for 70 more foster parents
Dundee fostering and adoption ad campaign
Ad campaign for foster carers
On the bulletin board
Book Review
May 8, 2006
Extra school moves disrupting education of children in care
Campaign is launched to find homes for children
Fostering a legacy:
Carer recruitment drive launched
Lotto winner back behind wheel of bus to launch awareness campaign
May 5, 2006
Campaign to recruit more foster carers
Flintshire needs 40 new foster carers
Comment from Shadow Minister for Children
Foster Care Fortnight 2006
May 4, 2006
City plea for more foster carers
On the bulletin board
May 3, 2006
Council in need of foster parents
Could you be a foster carer?
Balloons to foster help
On the bulletin board
May 2, 2006
Carers must tell authority
Youngsters in social care are the focus of the 33rd pledge made to people in Swindon
Aberdeenshire Council have praised the efforts of a group of foster carers who between them have provided around 100 years of support for children and young people in the area
Staffordshire County Council's family placement service is sponsoring two displays as part of the annual Staffordshire in Bloom project
Looking for the birth sister of Frank Nicholson
Model and TV personality Nell McAndrew is donating a massive £62,500 to leading children's charity NCH
Looked after children and young people were placed high on the agenda, at a reception held at the House of Commons recently
Derby has opened its first dedicated centre for fostering and adoption
Children who need foster care are being left in children's homes because of a critical shortage of foster parents in the Lincolnshire areas
A new-look home for young people in care with emotional and behavioural difficulties has been officially opened
Project for looked after children launches its latest volume of their work at Royal Cornwall
FCA forged positive partnerships across the water this month when staff were invited to take part in the 36th Annual Education Conference, held in Texas, USA
Searching for Hannah
Politicians and celebrities are to attend the official launch of a unique new information and resources website for adopted adults, birth relatives and adoptive parents
Young parents in the English social care system are being let down by health and social care services, with the majority fearing their child will be taken away from them
Liverpool and Wirral need to find more than 200 foster carers to plug a massive gap in services for some of the region's most vulnerable children
So, What's It Like To Be A Cat? by Karla Kuskin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
When her mother abandoned her at the age of four she was taken in by foster parents and cared for, and, for the last 18 years, Toni Jackson has turned the tables and has fostered 18 teenagers herself
North Allerdale needs foster carers, say officers at Cumbria County Council, who are struggling to find homes for children in their home county
There are Turkish speaking children requiring foster care in Hackney, but no Turkish, Turkish Cypriot or Kurdish families to foster them
My Granny Went to Market by Stella Blackstone and Christopher Corr
Nearly a quarter of English fostering services still has no strategy for the recruitment of foster carers, while just under half have no post dedicated to the recruitment task, a report published on Wednesday by the Fostering Network reveals
A nationwide charity has issued an appeal for more short-break foster carers in Aberdeen and the Shire
A woman who has been fostering children for five years is appealing for others to offer a child in need a home
The search is on to find 50 new foster carers in Cheshire as part of the national Foster Care Fortnight campaign
The Fairytale Cake by Jonathan Langley
Fostering services in Nottinghamshire desperately need another 90 families to care for children on a long and short-term basis
East Riding Council is urging potential foster carers to come forward
In Glasgow, councils have been warned they must offer more cash and practical help to end a massive shortage of foster homes for children
One young couple have opened up their hearts and lives to two youngsters in need by becoming foster carers
Two couples from North Devon have been praised by Devon County Council for their commitment to fostering
Angel Shoes by Emily Pound
Fostering brighter futures for fostered children through educational achievement
Gilbert The Great By Jane Clarke, Illustrated by Charles Fuge
Jane and Derek Dodd are long-term foster carers, meaning most of the 18 children they have looked after have stayed with them for a number of years, read their story
Magic Train Ride by Sally Crabtree
Adele and Paul Maple are backing a drive during National Fostering Fortnight to persuade more people to become foster carers, which Adele says is "the best thing I've ever done"
As Foster Care Fortnight continues, one couple have spoken of the joy and rewards they have gained during more than a decade of looking after children
Lorraine Warren and her partner Tom have fostered a total of 50 children over the past 10 years, hear their story
Cloud Boy by Rhode Montijo
A campaign to find foster carers who can look after children in Plymouth has been launched by the city council
Children's charities have voiced fears that plans to reform adoption in Scotland will mean children under 12 will not have their views heard and that some agreements could be revoked
Somerset County Council is supporting a national campaign to raise awareness about fostering and the national shortage of foster carers
A plea for carers in North Warwickshire has been sent out by Warwickshire County Council's fostering service
More carers needed
Postman Pat Alf Thompson by Mandy Archer, illustrated by Baz Rowell
More foster carers are being sought by Derby City Council as it marks National Fostering Fortnight
Exeter father Graham Wreford has taken 41 foster children under his wing over the past 16 years - all after stepping in to help one of his daughter's schoolfriends
Dozens of children, teenagers and youngsters with special needs in Gloucestershire require foster parents. At the start of Foster Care Fortnight, Gloucestershire County Council is appealing for more people in the county to consider fostering
Pam and Dave French became foster carers so they could look after one of their son's friends. Thirteen years later, the couple, from Leicester, have fostered more than 600 children
Potential foster carers for the Stoke area can find out more about offering a home to young people at an event in the city centre
Dora Goes To School, Adapted by Leslie Valdes, Illustrated by Robert Roper
Young people in foster care have presented children's minister Jane Hutt with a looked-after children's education charter, at an event at the National Assembly to mark the launch of Foster Care Fortnight 2006
Try Fostering!
That's the SOS from Barnardo's North East in a desperate bid to find more people willing to foster and adopt
Reporter wants to interview foster carers and two children who have been in foster care and are from the Southwark area of London
Foster carers are urgently needed to stop overcrowding in foster homes across Scotland, the Fostering Network is warning as Foster Care Fortnight 2006 begins
A London-based charity dedicated to supporting people involved in adoption has revealed it is marking its 20th anniversary by launching an ambitious bid to buy its own building
A couple with five children, including two adopted children, are backing a campaign to recruit foster carers
A drive to recruit more foster carers and adoptive parents in Dundee is underway
A cinema advertisement is being shown to encourage people to become foster carers
Woman's bid to track down birth mother
The Daddy Goose Collection; Stories From Favourite Nursery Rhymes, as told to Vivian French, Illustrated by four artists
Almost half of looked-after children in the UK have had their education disrupted with at least one additional change of school since coming into care
A fresh campaign has been launched to encourage people to consider becoming foster carers in Cornwall
Memorial lecture celebrates achievements of pioneer of teenage fostering
Scotland's oldest children's charity has launched a drive to find foster carers
Ex bus driver Peter Lavery, will be back behind the wheel of a special fostering bus to launch this year's Foster Care Fortnight
Somerset County Council is supporting a national campaign to raise awareness about fostering and the national shortage of foster carers
Flintshire has an urgent need for 40 new foster carers, according to the latest figures from Flintshire Children's Services Family Placement Team
Shadow Minister for Children urges fellow MP's to recognise the "exceptional" work carried out by foster carers
Fostered children take to the stage to launch annual awareness event
People thinking about becoming foster carers are being invited to discover more about fostering as a two-week appeal gets under way in Southampton
Plymouth city council's foster carers say thanks!
Potential foster parents are being sought to help care for vulnerable children
There is a desperate shortage of foster parents in Wales
The air above Swansea city centre will be filled with an explosion of colour to mark the start of Foster Fortnight next month
A Durham man is hoping to get in touch with his long-lost sister
Private foster carers who have not informed their council that they are looking after children are unwittingly breaking the law
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