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The Truth from the Frontline.No filter, no spin, no hiding. The stories behind the headlines, the truths behind the system - exposing, confronting, and moving foster care forward.Hosted by Sarah Anderson, CEO of FosterWiki & Co-founder of the NFCQ and Louise Allen,…
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You're “Just” a Foster Carer (opens the original)
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You're “Just” a Foster Carer & Revolving Door Failed Leadership; They Move Around. So Does the Damage. You’re “JUST” a foster carer. A word that tells you an awful lot about how foster carers are still viewed by parts of the care system. This week Sarah and Louise unpack the “just” that diminishes foster carers, the weaponisation of experience, and why carers are expected to behave like professionals while routinely being treated as though their knowledge, qualifications and expertise somehow co
Big Brother or Accountability? CCTV, Body Cams (opens the original)
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Big Brother or Accountability? CCTV, Body Cams and Someone’s Back on the Naughty Step This week, Sarah and Louise are back with the cynicism dial turned all the way up, and, for the first time, Sarah and Louise find themselves firmly on opposite sides of one of the biggest debates in fostering right now, and let’s just say, it gets lively! Do Sarah and Louise fall out or disagree agreeably? Westminster’s latest response to care leavers being pushed off a “dangerous cliff edge” to another round o
The Rules Don’t Apply to Everyone (opens the original)
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The Rules Don’t Apply to Everyone: Unchecked Power – Part 2 This week on Foster Care Uncovered , Sarah and Louise go from the supposedly boring world of new fostering standards to one of the most uncomfortable questions in children’s social care: what happens to the truth when one side holds most of the power? Can power create a culture where the truth becomes… flexible? Not necessarily because anyone is deliberately lying, but because when you hold the authority, do you become unconsciously mor
Do Social Workers Have Too Much Power? (opens the original)
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Do Social Workers Have Too Much Power? What Unchecked Power Does to Ordinary People. This week Sarah and Louise ask a difficult but important question: what happens when any profession is given significant authority without enough challenge, accountability or independent scrutiny? Before anyone jumps to conclusions, this is not an attack on social workers. Far from it. Thousands of dedicated social workers care deeply about children and families and do extraordinary work every day. But Foster Ca
Who’s Been on the Blinis? Politics, PR and Exploitation (opens the original)
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While the Westminster set enjoy salmon blinis, caviar and £100 bottles of Pol Roger, the people holding children’s social care together are exhausted, undervalued and walking away. This week on Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise look at the politics behind children’s social care reform, the arrival of new leadership, and whether the promise of listening to people beyond Westminster will finally reach the frontline. We ask whether glossy announcements, photo opportunities and symbolic reform
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