One year of Mockingbird support for Dorset’s foster families
This month marks the one-year anniversary of Dorset’s first ever Mockingbird constellation – Pegasus.
Could you offer a stepping stone to a young person leaving care?
Supported Lodgings can help young people who are leaving our care, experience the transition to adulthood in a safe and secure environment, whilst learning emotional and practical skills that will help them thrive.
Could you provide a home for unaccompanied children?
Dorset Council is looking for people who would be willing to foster or provide supported lodgings for unaccompanied children and young people.
Support for Dorset’s foster carers set to expand
Dorset Council is set to launch two new Mockingbird constellations this year, enabling more than 25 per cent of its foster carers to have access to 24/7 wrap-around support and an invaluable extended family support network.
Foster Care Fortnight: Meet our foster carers
This Foster Care Fortnight, we want to shine a light on some of the foster carers who are changing the lives of Dorset’s children and young people.
Find out more about Fostering with Dorset Council
Join us this Foster Care Fortnight (15-28 May) to find out more about fostering with Dorset Council.
Dorset foster carers get above inflation uplift in financial payments
Dorset Council foster carers and supported lodgings carers now benefit from an increase to their financial payment of 15 per cent from 1 April with a further increase of 12.43 per cent being added to the allowance part of the payment.
Celebration for an extra special family
A really special fostering family was celebrated at a recent event to launch Dorset Council’s Mockingbird programme. Mockingbird delivers sustainable foster care by replicating an extended family. It nurtures the relationships between children, young people and foster families, supporting them to build a resilient and caring community. The formation of the first extended family group,… Read more Celebration for an extra special family
Celebration for people who have helped change children’s lives
Foster carers from across Dorset have been recognised at an awards ceremony in Weymouth.
Why we foster with Dorset Council
To mark the start of #FosterCareFortnight we are shining a light on our fantastic fostering community, to hear what made them decide to foster with Dorset Council and the advice they’d give to others who are considering it.
The old women who lived in a shoe. Latest blog by Amanda (one of our brilliant foster carers)
Well that’s what I feel like at the moment with hopefully less of the ‘old’. My eldest (number 1) has been back from uni for several months thanks to the pandemic. My nest is therefore jam packed with all eight kids decidedly bored with all this Covid business.
Fostering Fortnight is here – Can you help?
Could you open your door to a vulnerable child or young person? Someone who wasn’t lucky enough to have had a safe and stable home life.
We all need some ‘time out’ now and then – latest blog by Amanda (one of our brilliant foster carers)
Easter, a time of new-born lambs, fighting the urge to break the diet and hoping the kids come down from the ceiling after the massive post sugar rush of chocolate eggs.
Could you foster a child in Dorset?
Every year, hundreds of children need foster carers in Dorset while they can’t live with their own families. Could you open your home be one of our highly valued foster carers?
I’m proud of all my children – latest blog by Amanda (one of our brilliant foster carers)
This month I’ve had the pleasure of having a very inspiring young man on daily respite at my house who made me think about how difficult it’s been for young people in care in these crazy times.
Our foster family tell all about homeschooling…
Groundhog day and TV appearances? Latest blog by Amanda one of our brilliant foster carers.
Find out about Fostering
If you’re interested in fostering, find out more during Foster Care Fortnight.
New campaign to find foster carers for Dorset children
A new campaign has been launched by Dorset Council to find more foster carers for Dorset children.
Oh! Yes it is – the January blog from foster carer Amanda
A sea of paper in every room, noise level up ten octaves and barely-open presents tossed on the floor. I’m still in my dressing room looking like an extra from the Gremlins and my husband is sat with five boxes of chocolates, a little overwhelmed at where to begin. Must be Christmas day.
New year, new career – is fostering for you?
At the start of the new year, many people take stock and consider making changes in their lives, including looking at a new career. Will 2020 be the right time for you to make a difference to a child’s life?
Dorset Council celebrates National Care Leavers Week 2019
Dorset Council is supporting National Care Leavers Week 2019 which takes place from 28 October to 3 November 2019. This annual initiative recognises young people who have left looked after care and are now living independently. Saphron Gafney-Parker, left care at 17 years old. Now aged 21, Saphron is studying hairdressing and lives with her… Read more Dorset Council celebrates National Care Leavers Week 2019
Star Awards 2019 celebrate Dorset’s foster families and children in care
Dorset’s children in care and their foster families have been celebrated at the 2019 Star Awards.
Unicorn madness and a sad goodbye – the latest news from our foster carer Amanda
The forest is completed, complete with aquarium masquerading as a forest pond. The ocean room is coming on swimmingly so on to the unicorn room.
Find out more about Fostering in Bridport
If you’ve ever considered fostering, you can get answers to all your burning questions at a drop-in session at Bridport Youth Centre on Thursday, 27 June.
Find out if fostering is for you
If you’re interested in fostering, now is the time to find out more. During Foster Care Fortnight (13-26 May), Dorset Council’s fostering team is out and about at a series of drop-in session and events across the county.
