In the wake of National fostering week, we’d like to celebrate 8 exceptional foster families, who have fostered children with disabilities for over 25 years for Leeds City Council and share their remarkable stories with you. This blog tells the stories of the first 4 of these fostering families. 1. Mary and Martin Birkinshaw were first…
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Do you ever work with children or young people? Do you know the law about ‘private fostering’ and why it means local authorities need to know? To keep children safe we need everyone who works with children and families to help. If your role involves supporting families, you may well have come across families who…
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Fostering and adoption services are an integral part of Leeds City Council’s work with children and young people. Over the coming months we will be hearing from a range of people working with, and as part of, our fostering and adoption services, telling the stories of the work we do for the city’s children and…
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As part of our ambition to make Leeds a child friendly city we work with a range of businesses and organisations to provide support to our foster carers. The organisations often provide our foster carers with free or discounted tickets to events, so they can get out and about with the young people they look…
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Being a Leeds City Council foster carer can be an incredibly rewarding experience, with carers supporting a young person during the most important years of their life. We are always looking for more people to help improve the lives of our city’s looked after young people, you can find out more about the process by getting…
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Fostering can be an incredibly rewarding experience for foster carers as they help and support a young person during the most important years of their life. We currently have around 600 foster carers and are looking for more people to help improve the lives of our cities young people by getting in contact with our fostering team.…
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Leeds City Council is always looking for new foster carers to improve the lives of young people across the city. Today we hear the experience of one of our foster children about what having a foster carer means to them… (For the purpose of confidentiality a stock image has been used and names have not…
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Today we have a great story of a private fostering arrangement in Leeds, to show how brilliant it can be for all involved. This type of fostering is when a private arrangement is made between a child’s parents and someone other than a close relative to look after their child for at least twenty eight…
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Did you know that there are hundreds of children living in Leeds who need to be adopted or fostered? An important part of our ambition to be a child friendly city is that we want to make sure all our children are in homes that are safe, where they can receive care with patience, understanding…
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