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Celebrating Foster Care Fortnight

This year, Foster Care Fortnight runs from 9-22 May. To celebrate, over 20 foster carers joined Slough Children First Independent Fostering Agency (SCF IFA); Councillor Christine Hulme (Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Lifelong Learning & Skills) and senior managers at a ‘Thank you Brunch’, to celebrate SCF’s foster carers. The brunch was a chance to […]

Fostering Information Session

Foster carers look after children or young people who cannot live with their own families. This could be due to reasons that include illness, relationship breakdown or concerns about their welfare. In March 2020, there were 57,380 children in England living with foster families. These families provide children and young people with a safe and […]

Slough Children First fostering agency rated good by Ofsted inspectors

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Slough Children First’s Independent Fostering Agency has been rated good by inspectors from Ofsted following an inspection of the service in July. In a letter published on Ofsted’s website, staff at the agency and foster carers were praised for their success in improving the service, moving it from simply compliance to quality. The inspectors noted […]

Foster carers share their inspiring stories

Foster carers in Slough have been sharing their stories as part of Foster Care Fortnight, a national campaign organised by the Fostering Network to showcase the commitment, passion and dedication of foster carers while highlighting the need for more. The theme for Foster Care Fortnight, which took place over the last two weeks, was ‘why […]

Fostering Information Session

  Foster carers look after children or young people who cannot live with their own families. This could be due to reasons that include illness, relationship breakdown or concerns about their welfare. In March 2018, there were 75,420 children in England living with foster families. These families provide children and young people with a safe […]

Could you be a life-changer this New Year?

Foster carers with Slough Children’s Services Trust receive excellent support which includes generous allowances, excellent training and 24/7 support.

Businesses and the Trust come together to address foster care shortage

Local businesses and Slough Children’s Services Trust have come together to explore how foster friendly work places could help address an urgent need for foster carers.

Fostering Business Breakfast

Slough Children's Services Trust 'Working with business to change lives' leaflet

Are you a foster friendly employer? You’re sure to have various parental policies but the chances are you don’t have one for staff who are foster carers or wish to become one. At a time when there is a record number of children in care and a national shortage of foster carers, this is more important […]

Toy appeal to help create more smiles in Slough

Slough Children’s Services Trust has just launched its Christmas Toy Appeal to ensure that every disadvantaged child across the borough receives a gift on Christmas day and gets to experience some of the magic of Christmas that other children do. The Trust is asking people in Slough to add just one extra gift to their […]

The best thing about fostering is making that permanent, positive, powerful change

The best thing about fostering is making that permanent, positive, powerful change.

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