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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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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The child friendly Leeds awards are your chance to nominate the places and people making Leeds a great place to grow up in, as well as being a platform for young people and adults looking after young people around Leeds to tell their stories from around the city. Today we hear from Dene, who volunteers as part…
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Today we talk to Ben Whitehead, a manager within Leeds City Council’s fostering team, about Leeds City Council’s supported lodgings initiative. The initiative provides lodgings for young people aged 16-21, and we wanted to know how this new initiative works and who can get involved and become a supported lodgings provider… Supported lodgings are a…
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On Saturday the 19th of July students from the Centre for Advanced Training, Yorkshire Young Dancers (YYD) based at Northern School of Contemporary Dance jumped into action at Trinity Leeds shopping centre as part of Breeze Arts Festival. The flash mob was choreographed by Sean Selby and helped to promote both the arts Festival…
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Today we hear from Heather, who manages the adoption and fostering panel service at Leeds City Council. The panels are the independent groups of people who prospective adoptive parents and foster carers meet near the end of their assessment process. We started by asking her how she got into managing the service. “I’ve worked for…
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Today is our final part from our gay couple, writing about their experience of becoming foster carers for Leeds City Council. We hope you’ve enjoyed it. “We had spent the last few months being assessed to become foster carers. We felt relieved and satisfied when it was all completed and submitted to the relevant people.…
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“My partner and I had just started the assessment process to become foster carers. Very early in the process we were told we had to attend a course called Skills to Foster. This was a three day course and is run fairly frequently often over weekends, to minimise the time taken off work. Having sorted…
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Here is part three of our five part series from our gay foster carers, talking about their experience of becoming carers with Leeds City Council. “My partner and I came away from the open evening more determined to become foster carers than when we arrived. Later the same week, having left our details, we were contacted by the recruitment…
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“We had thought long and hard about going into fostering. We hadn’t spoken to anyone about it – family, friends or professionals. We had to be sure ourselves before we discussed it with the outside world. Then we heard about an open evening specifically for gay & lesbian people being run by Leeds City Council…
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