Voices of Fostering
Voices of Fostering brought to you by National Fostering Group.
Everyone’s life takes a different path. As children and young people decisions can be made for us that shape our lives forever – whether for good or bad. As adults, we have the opportunity to make our own choices. And what we choose can have a positive impact on us and the world around us. Particularly if one of those choices is fostering. When you listen to the stories of children and young people whose lives have been touched by foster carers, you start to see the impact that fostering can have. When you decide to foster, it’s hard to imagine just how big a difference you could make. Not just to the young people you foster, but rippling out into countless other lives. Your choice to foster could transform the life chances of some of the most vulnerable people in society. In this podcast, you’ll hear young people who were fostered, birth children and foster carers talking openly and candidly about their experiences. You’ll get to understand why fostering can be simultaneously the most rewarding and the most challenging thing you’ll ever do and why embarking on this extraordinary journey changes people forever. If you’ve ever been curious about what it really means to foster, what difference it really makes, you’ll find the answers here.
Voices of Fostering
Latest Episodes
Joanna - A Single Parent's Fostering Journey
In this episode of Voices of Fostering, we meet Joanna — a single mum and foster carer who has opened her home to 15 children over nine years. From a chance encounter at a summer fair (thanks to an overly friendly dog) to celebrating mil...
Lynne - One Family's Fostering Journey
When Lynne and her husband Keith decided to open their home to fostering, they had no idea they'd go on to care for more than 31 children over the next decade. In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Lynne shares the story behind that in...
Travis - Fostering Teenagers with Complex Needs
After 15 years in a soulless corporate job, Travis walked away to become a foster carer — and never looked back. Over the past 11 years, he and his wife have fostered 16 teenage boys with extreme complex needs, transforming lives through an app...
Christine & Charlotte - Fostering, Family & Navigating Menopause
Two women. Two generations. Two completely different experiences of the menopause.In this episode, 79-year-old social worker and foster carer Christine shares her story of sailing through the menopause with little more than hot flushes ...
Lisa - Inside FosterTalk's Support for Carers
In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Helen is joined by Lisa from FosterTalk — a vital support service available to all National Fostering Group carers across England, Scotland, and Wales. Lisa breaks down the wide range of support on...
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