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October, 2005 stories
October 31, 2005
All they need is to be cared for
Crucial European lessons for UK fostering services
Children's plight sparks 'help' call
Scheme launched to ease social work crisis
Boost for children's charity
October 28, 2005
Wanted: New Mum and Dad
Book Review
On the bulletin board
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Sterling stars honoured at NSPCC Hall of Fame 2005 ceremony
October 27, 2005
Sale will benefit the orphans
Bagging the limelight
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October 26, 2005
Awards for foster team
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October 25, 2005
Halloween survival guide
October 24, 2005
Book Review
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Give child a new home
Need a social worker? Give Canada a try!
October 21, 2005
Book Review
Balloons, fun and adventure for disabled children and their carers
Making every child matter
October 20, 2005
Mum of 50 reveals fostering joy
October 18, 2005
Fostering services under strain, report warns
BAAF advice on adoption following the South Asian earthquake
October 17, 2005
Book Review
Rise in adoption numbers
October 14, 2005
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Praise is heaped on fostering scheme
October 13, 2005
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Praise is heaped on fostering scheme
Book Review
October 12, 2005
Charity appeal
October 11, 2005
Foster carer campaign a huge success
Ethiopia's adoption dilemma
October 10, 2005
Caring pair making such a difference
Foster carers wanted
October 7, 2005
Book Review
Big lift-off for fostering drive
October 6, 2005
Hunt's on for foster carers
Couple's delight at being foster parents
ChildLine still facing cuts
October 5, 2005
Audio Review
Foster carers take to the sky
Foster carers rewarded for long service
Overspend on private fostering in Norfolk
Adopted rapper inspiration for new Hollywood blockbuster
October 4, 2005
I found my mum after 60 years
On the bulletin board
Another search for northeastern local newspaper
Gay adoption issue develops in Ireland
October 3, 2005
Book Review
Glasgow adoption drive to escape childcare crisis
Adoption debate in Welsh Assembly
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Super foster mum speaks out about the shortage of foster carers in the Somerset area and has backed plans to find more
UK fostering services have crucial lessons to learn from European neighbours, delegates at the Fostering Network's conference in Leeds heard on October 21
The number of children in care in Scotland has risen by four per cent to more than 12,000 - sparking calls for urgent action to address Scotland's chronic shortage of foster parents
An initiative has been launched by Lincolnshire county council and the University of Lincoln to ease a severe shortage of social workers in the area
A north-east based energy company has given £3,000 to children in need
In a television first, Channel 4 has gained exceptional access inside the world of adoption
The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A study of adoption, search and reunion experiences by John Triseliotis, Julia Feast and Fiona Kyle
Independent television production company Leopard Films are making a series for BBC1 about foundlings
Looking for Norah Pauline Doherty
The NSPCC will be honouring celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sport for their outstanding contribution to the NSPCC FULL STOP campaign
A sale in aid of Romanian orphans is being held on November 4 and 5
Fashion show aims to rubbish the practice of putting children's possessions in bin bags when they leave care
Birth mum looking for twin girls
The fostering service in Nottinghamshire has scooped two national awards
Searching for Steven (Stephen) Mitchell
A guide for parents and carers for a ghoulish but happy Halloween!
Parents For Children by Alice Fowler
Searching for sister
Children are crying out to be adopted in Nottingham
Canadian social workers are being flown into Gloucestershire to combat a dire shortage
Goose in a hole by Judith Kerr
Press release from NCH - the children's charity
New CSCI report shows quality of social services is improving for most children
Carer tells of the happiness fostering can bring to people's lives
Fostering Services in Scotland are under considerable strain, top charity the Fostering Network warns, with the publication of a new report in Edinburgh today (October 18)
Charity is advising people who want to help children affected by the South Asian earthquake that it will be too early for adoption to be considered for children who may have lost parents and that the most helpful short-term support will be contributions to the emergency fund set up to help them
Good Knight Sleep Tight By David Melling
Cambridge Evening News reports of a huge rise in adoption numbers in its area
Search for siblings
A pioneering fostering scheme that turns around the lives of troubled youngsters has been praised by the Government
Looking for half sisters
A pioneering fostering scheme that turns around the lives of troubled youngsters has been praised by the Government
Tickly Christmas Wibbly Pig by Mick Inkpen (book published October 13)
Children's charity appeals to residents of Isle of Wight to become foster carers
A poster campaign appealing for new foster carers in Staffordshire has been hailed a major success
Ethiopia has some five million orphans - half of them because of Aids
Family have fostered through the children's charity NCH - National Children's Homes - which run Cotswold Community
Children's charity NCH is in need of foster carers
Raising and Praising Girls by Elizabeth Hartley Brewer
Hundreds of balloons have been released into the sky as part of a scheme to encourage people to find out about fostering
Foster carers are being sought from black and Asian communities in the Nottinghamshire area
Being a foster carer can be rewarding, frustrating, satisfying and even educating, say a couple who have become foster parents through Integrated Care in Cullompton
ChildLine this week thanked donors whose generosity had so far helped the charity avoid swingeing cuts but said it was still facing tough decisions in the coming months
A Children's Confidence CD by Glenn Harrold
Foster staff and carers from Swansea reached for the sky when they took part in a national balloon race
As foster carers in Mendip are honoured for more than 15 years of service to children and young people, Somerset County Council is calling for more volunteers
It emerged last week that Norfolk county council will go more than five million pounds over their budget for foster carers in 2005/6
The director of action movie Four Brothers tells how his new movie was influenced by a real life foster story - that of his friend, rapper The Game
At 61, Keith Hewes was stunned to find out he'd been adopted. Now, two weeks later, he's found a family in Nottingham he never knew he had... and, even more remarkably, he has traced his long lost mother, now 92, and in Australia
Looking for Adrian Owen
Five siblings in the northeast are looking to their local newspaper this week for help to find their missing brother, who was adopted almost 50 years ago
The Irish Independent reports this week that a lesbian couple in Ireland are challenging adoption law in the country
Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer
The number of children in need of care in Glasgow has been rocketing in recent years, and the council has been forced to respond
IcWales has reported some movement in the debate on adoption tracing in the Welsh Assembly
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