Fostering a disabled child
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How to foster
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What happens when a child is taken into care?
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Can you foster if you have mental health issues?
Fostering with local authority vs independent agency
Interview: Life as a foster parent during the pandemic
Becoming A Foster Carer
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What is a Care Leaver?
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What is Foster Care?
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Fostering Regulations
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How to Foster a Child
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Fostering Children UK
Children needing Fostering
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Fostering as a Career
Looked after Children
Top transferable job skills to become a foster carer
Fostering as a same sex couple
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Mythbusting the top 10 Foster Care Myths
Can I foster if I am disabled?
LGBT Fostering Mythbusting
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Can I Foster A Child?
Can you Foster and Work?
Can you Foster with a Criminal Record
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LGBT Family and Foster Care
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Empty Nest Syndrome and Foster Care
10 things you can do when your Children fly the nest
Can I Foster?
Fostering Babies - Myths
Focusing on Parent & Child Fostering
Fostering Siblings
Fostering Teenagers
Fostering Teenagers - Breaking down the Myths
Fostering Unaccompanied and Asylum Seeking Children
Mother and Baby Foster Placements
Private Fostering
Therapeutic Fostering - Multi-disciplinary Assessment Treatment & Therapy Service (MATTS)
Young Children Fostering Placements
Difference between short and long-term fostering
How to prepare a child for becoming a care leaver
Children who foster: impact of fostering on birth children
How to prepare your home for a foster child
10 tips for foster children’s education
How to prepare your foster child for secondary school
Tips for coping when foster placements end
Tips for foster parents during Coronavirus
What happens if foster parents get divorced?
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Tips for managing foster children’s bedtime routines
How to handle foster child bullying
Fostering allowances and the gender pay gap
Tips for keeping foster children safe online
How to adopt from Foster Care
5 ways to manage Father’s Day with foster children
8 most common fostering challenges
Supporting foster children’s contact with birth families
How to deal with empty nest syndrome
How to recognise signs of depression in foster children
Can you take a foster child on holiday?
Tips and advice on fostering with a disability
10 tips on connecting with your Foster Child
Fostering versus Adoption - What's the difference?
How Fostering can change a future
How to adopt from Foster Care
How to encourage children to read in Foster Care
How to prepare a Foster Child's bedroom
Online grooming - unwanted contact and how to identify it
Reading and storytelling with Babies and young Children
Supporting Children's Learning
Technology and Internet Safety advice
The 20 most recommended books Foster Carers and young people should read
The impact of early childhood traumas on adolescence and adulthood
Tips for coping with attachment disorders in Foster Children
Tips for supporting reunification in Foster Care
Together for a better Internet - Web Safety for Foster Children
What is sexual abuse and sexual violence
Foster Child behaviour management strategies
Foster Parent Advice: What to expect in your first year of fostering
Capstone's twelve tips at Christmas
10 celebrities who grew up in Foster Care
Celebrating our Children and Young People
Could Millenials be the solution to the Foster Care crisis?
Do you work in Emergency Services?
Form F Assessor and Assessment Training
Foster Care Fortnight
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New Year - New Career - Become a Foster Carer
Promoting the rights and wellbeing of persons with Disabilities
Refugee Week
Young people and Mental Health in a changing world
Young People Charities
Whilst this may be beneficial for many, it creates significant challenges for keeping children safe. Although our primary focus is on keeping children safe, it is worth noting that technology also raises challenges for adults in not only keeping themselves safe but also understanding the technology which children are now using and the risks which children may unknowingly be exposing themselves to.
Technology also enables children and their families to communicate in ways which they were never able to before, for example more children than ever have their own mobile phones, email accounts and accounts on online networking sites such as, Facebook and Twitter. These technology advances which children nowadays have at their fingertips sometimes raises difficulties in the management of contact between foster children and their birth families.
A child’s care plan clarifies the structure which contact between children and their families should be. Sometimes this can be fluid and flexible and in some cases it can be clearly stipulated. Children and young people tend to carry their mobiles around with them and if they exchange numbers with birth relatives or communicate with them via email or online networking sites it can be almost impossible for carers to regulate the amount of contact, or to gate-keep what is being discussed. The challenges though extend beyond the contact which children may have with birth families to the potential of having contact with individuals who they do not know. Unfortunately there have been occasions whereby children as well as adults have been misled on the internet into believing they are talking to someone who is of a particular identity but it has later transpired that the person with whom they thought to have been communicating with was hiding behind a false identity by using a fake name and photos and sharing other details which have been uploaded or shared in dialogue.
There are no easy answers to the problem of how to manage the effects of technology, so it is important to encourage carers and parents to be aware of the issues which may arise and to think creatively about how to respond to them. Most importantly, we need to look out for changes in the child’s mood or behaviour and to be aware that communication through technology whether mobile phone apps or online may be raising issues which the child needs help to deal with.
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