I work hard to make sure that this service has the best staff who support the best foster carers, so that we can turn children and young people’s lives around. We offer a 24 hour a day service to the foster carers – there is always someone from the service available on the phone or to visit...
I check my tray to see my post and notice that I have some profiles of children sent to me. I am family finding for some adopters and one profile is for a 7 year old boy who has suffered neglect but is doing very well in his pre adoptive foster placement and could be a possible match for a family I have...
We have been married for just over thirty years; we are blessed with a lovely son who has brought us lots of joy and happiness. And this would have been the end of our family’s story if we hadn’t decided to pick up the phone when our son was growing up and call Barnardo’s...
We wanted to give you a snap shot of what our weekends are like when Dan comes to stay with us. We chose to become short break carers through Barnardo’s because we get to give something back and get to spend time with great kids...
We fostered Nickie nearly two years ago. When she arrived one of the first things we realised was that she didn’t have any photos of herself. We felt sad because she didn’t have any family memories to look back on or fun days out to remember...
In 2004 we started four years of unsuccessful, gruelling IVF treatment. After four years we both realised that having birth children wasn’t the most important thing to us, but being parents together was. So we decided to make the most important phone call of our lives and rang Barnardo’s...
We became a family through adoption over four years ago when our son Benjamin entered our arms. Our family grew again through adoption when our son Samuel came to us. As a same-sex couple, adoption was an obvious choice for us to become parents...
I’ve always wanted to foster, ever since I was young and watched a TV show about foster parents helping children and the difference they could make. In 2009 we had our civil partnership and bought a house with plenty of room. We decided that we would look into foster caring more seriously....