At South Gloucestershire Council like any parent, we want the best for the children and young people who we act as corporate guardian for. We want to work alongside young people with first-hand experience of being in care. Join our team of Young Ambassadors to help deliver positive change. We asked EPIC (Experienced Panel In […]
Kinship care or Connected Care is when a child lives full-time or most of the time with a relative or friend who isn’t their parent, usually because their parents aren’t able to care for them. That relative or friend is called a ‘kinship carer’, and it’s estimated that around half of kinship carers are grandparents, […]
South Gloucestershire Council is launching a new campaign to attract more potential foster carers to come forward throughout the area. Aimee Williams, a Consultant Social Worker with the Council, has written a poem ‘I LAC Nothing’, which is inspired by children in care and care leavers that she has worked with. Aimee’s poem has been […]
We are encouraging people to step forward into a rewarding and fulfilling role as a foster carer this Foster Care Fortnight (11 – 24 May) Every 20 minutes another child comes into care needing a foster family in the UK. In South Gloucestershire alone there are over 220 children and young people in care at […]
A Mother’s Day letter to a foster carer This Mother’s Day we celebrate everything our foster carers do for children and young people in care across South Gloucestershire. The words in this letter are real. The young person who wrote the original letter to their foster carer gave us permission to share it anonymously – […]