Sunbeam Fostering Wishes you a Very Happy New Year ! We wish you all the very best for New Year 2016. May Love, Laugh & Happiness stays with you forever. Sunbeam Fostering Agency will keep service with excellence in new year, as we are proud in doing what we do for the past 15 years.
Memory boxes for Looked After Children Memories, both happy and sad, shape who we are and help us to understand ourselves and those around us. They enable us to make sense of our world so that we can move on to a positive future. Children brought up in their birth families are surrounded… Continue reading Memory boxes for Looked After Children
Children in secure children’s home are doing twice as well with their education progress than expected, a study has found. self-governing research into secure children’s homes has found that young people spending between four and eight weeks in a home achieve a national curriculum points increase of 2.05 in English and mathematics, compared to the… Continue reading Young people in secure children’s homes exceed supposition
Young people in secure children’s homes exceed supposition Children in secure children’s home are doing twice as well with their education progress than expected, a study has found. self-governing research into secure children’s homes has found that young people spending between four and eight weeks in a home achieve a national curriculum points increase… Continue reading Young people in secure children's homes exceed supposition
I guess I love a challenge – I cycled through Jordan, trekked in China, and now I am a competitive sports fencer. I love parenting too, with birth daughters who are 22 and 17, and our youngest daughter, adopted from China who is 10. So maybe foster caring was an obvious thing to do. M… Continue reading This is not a soft-focus advertisements for foster carers, this is real life
Meeting the shortage of foster carers in Ealing is continually at the forefront of activity within Ealing council’s Fostering and Adoption Recruitment team. Despite ongoing activity to increase awareness and understanding of fostering, some people still rule themselves out based on a number of misconceptions; faith being one of them. Whilst rewarding, fostering can be… Continue reading Working with faith groups to recruit foster carers
Looking after five children – two adopted and three fostered on a short-term basis – has radically changed Dave’s way of life. Fostering never crossed my mind. I was a chef with no direct experience of parenting or links to the caring professions. Now I’m studying for a certificate in social care, have given up full-time work and… Continue reading Lots of kids
We know all too well that the quality of support young people in care receive during the transition to adulthood shapes their future life chances – for better or for worse. It’s a crucial time for all young people, even more so for those young people in the care of the state. Whilst it’s encouraging… Continue reading Moving out, staying out – will we continue to fail young people leaving foster care?
When Helen made the decision to build her family through adoption, her personal experience of domestic violence led her to Lee – a little boy struggling to cope with the terror of his early experiences…….. As a single woman looking to adopt a child between the ages of four and seven, it didn’t take long… Continue reading Coping with the impact of domestic violence
The top Five things that every child needs taking for granted that food, water and oxygen are necessary for any child. Love : Let’s start with a simple one. Receiving love is fundamental to our well-being. Love gives us a base from which we build our self-worth as a child. Being loved implicitly tells us we are… Continue reading Top 5 Things Every Child Needs
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