A project offering support for foster families has been described as being like an “extended family”. Foster for Plymouth, a service run by the city council, said its mockingbird programme provided families with peer support, social activities and respite care in the form of sleepovers. Foster parent and project leader Lydia Oliver said she had...
Anna Varle South West health correspondent BBC Sumedha Aryaratne moved to Devon with his family to work in domiciliary care Overseas people working in adult social care have said they are “afraid” about proposed changes aimed at making it harder for international workers to remain in the UK. Currently carers gain the right to live...
Plymouth City Council is urgently appealing for more foster carers to take in children in care. It said there were 534 children living in care Plymouth, but there were only 119 fostering households registered with the council, it said. Councillor Jemima Laing, cabinet member for Children’s Social Care, said fostering was a “fantastic opportunity” and...
BBC Sharon became a foster carer along with her husband Tim in her 50s Empty nesters should not worry they are too old to become foster carers, as those who have made the move tell the BBC they have “a huge amount to offer” . Parents who started fostering after their grown-up children left home...