Social pedagogy is an incredibly common education and social care practise in continental Europe and the Fostering Network has launched a ground breaking programme to bring it to the UK.

Head, Heart, Hands will be based in six demonstration sites across England and Scotland for the next four years. Over...

Housing benefit reform, better known to the lay person as "bedroom tax", is about to become part of life for foster carers who live in social housing and claim housing benefit.

The Government's reforms to the current benefit system will mean that some foster carers will effectively have to...

This year about 90,000 children and young people in England will spend time being "looked after" by a local authority.

For many children, this will be a brief period while their family sorts out a crisis and then the children return home. For others, it can go on for longer...

Every 22 minutes across the UK, a child comes into care and needs a foster carer.

There is ever increasing pressure on the care system to find the most appropriate homes for these children so that they can have the best possible chance of a positive future. Foster carers who...

In early 2011 a mum of two from Leicester was knee deep in nappies and night feeds for her second son when she decided to do something for herself. Ten months later, Holly Bell is standing on the edge of victory in the BBC's Great British Bake Off, she is...

So this week has seen A-Level results day. That day of the year where so many jump up and down, schools sell pictures of their prettiest female students to newspapers and some kind of future begins to be mapped out for some.

I got into university based on several years...

I am relatively new to twitter, I gave birth to the time and mind consuming entity that is @dom_stevenson on 16 September 2010. In that time I have noticed that whoever, and however inoffensive, the celebrity, they are often faced with the kind of bile that would see people thrown...

The average waiting time for the donation of a heart is 93 days for a child and 184 days for an adult and for a kidney, it is 277 and 1110 days respectively. Imagine what you could do with three years of good health and not spending hours of your...