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Understanding Adolescence: Questions and Decisions
All children who are fostered or have been adopted have experienced trauma, whatever the details of their story, and trauma has a profound impact on brain development.
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Understanding adolescence: What’s happening in the brain?
The first 1000 days of a child’s life are often heralded as being the most significant, in no small part because of what is happening in the brain.
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The Case for Change
Another step forward in transforming children’s experience of the care system
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Love in action
It is well-evidenced that trauma has a deep-rooted impact on our emotional, physical, and social development, which can impede our ability to navigate the world and feel safe.
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Prioritising teenagers
Teenagers in care are 80% more likely than the national average to have two or more changes of home in a year.
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Glimmers of Hope
Dave shares his family story of welcoming in a teenage foster daughter
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Our heart for teenagers
Home for Good is passionate about finding a home for every child, at every age.
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Rethinking our Approach to Older Children in Care
Older children in care are the fastest growing cohort of children and yet too many children who age out of the care system in England every year are doing so without a family to belong to.
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Emergency fostering - Tracy and Wayne's story
Tracy and Wayne share their experience of emergency foster care
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Early permanence - Ruth and Phil's story
Ruth and Phil share their experience of concurrent care fostering.
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Parent and child fostering - a foster carer's story
A foster carer shares her families experience of parent and child fostering.
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Respite fostering - foster carers' stories
Foster carers share their experience of respite foster care.
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