A crisis in the number of foster care placements available contributed to Marcia Grant’s death, an inquest heard. The 60-year-old was killed at her Sheffield home after a 12-year-old boy she was ...

Durham County Council is partnering with Now Foster to launch the Weekenders Programme, making County Durham one of the first UK areas to ...

The shortage of foster carers in the UK is a “very real crisis” that is leading to more children entering care homes, a leading children’s charity has warned. Barnados said experienced foster carers ...

God help me get by. When I wrote this haiku, the only thing I had in mind was the need for people to understand that group care destroys lives almost instantaneously. As I sat in my friend’s living ...

There were queues outside the Oireachtas Audio Visual Room last week, as representative groups and organisations made their final pitches in back-to-back presentations ahead of Budget Day. Politicians ...

Amy can point out 19 houses where she grew up in her Mississippi hometown. That tally doesn’t include the places in other cities and states where child welfare workers took her to live. Driving around ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Youth with experience in the foster care system face a variety of challenges in college access and ...

There are currently hundreds of thousands of children in foster care across the U.S. Though some will be reunited with their families of origin at some point, there are many who will not and who ...