Everything Foster Care.

Send us Fan Mail Thinking about fostering or already caring and craving steadier ground? We talk to the team from Foster Talk about the varied and in depth that they provide in addition to your local authority or independent care agency and open the door on what real support looks like when you’re Fostering a child and navigating systems that don’t always feel simple. From day one clarity to worst...

Send us Fan Mail What if children with complex health needs didn’t have to grow up in hospitals or residential units, but could experience everyday family life instead with your help?  We sit down with Richard Powell, managing director of Credo Care, to unpack how specialist fostering makes that possible — and far more achievable than most imagine. Across 25 years, Credo Care has built a model tha...

Send us Fan Mail A name mispronounced, a laugh shared, and then the door opens onto a life where books were the only safe room in the house. We sit down with author and playwright Alan Dapré—63 children’s books and counting—to explore how a childhood in care, a brutal boarding school, and one compassionate nun shaped a creative practice built on dignity, humour, and hope. Alan takes us from librar...

Send us Fan Mail A child doesn’t need every word to make sense; they need a safe space where rhythm, pictures, and patience invite them in. That’s the spirit of our conversation with author-illustrator Carly Ann Osborne, who blends classroom experience with creative storytelling to help neurodivergent children feel recognised. We explore how The Cute Newt draws from autistic traits and Quinn the P...

Send us Fan Mail What does care feel like when you are the child being moved, matched, and measured? 'The Hidden Poet' who helps us to understand what it's like to be a powerless child being moved from placement to placement. From the first emergency placement to the moment a teenager is told they are “independent” and handed a key. Through vivid poetry and first-hand stories, we tr...

Send us Fan Mail Grief doesn’t move in tidy stages, and goodbyes don’t have to look or sound the same. That’s the heartbeat of our conversation with funeral director and embalmer Allyse Worland, a first‑generation professional who’s spent nearly seventeen years advocating for compassionate, modern funeral care. Allyse takes us inside a profession that’s shedding stereotypes—opening the doors to pe...

Send us Fan Mail People, we need more people to consider becoming Foster carers which is a paid profession! See if this is for you and if you can get involved. Dive into the heart of foster care with Elle, the passionate founder of Eastern Fostering Services. Her journey from nurse to fostering advocate spans over three decades, rooted in a childhood where fostering was "in her blood" th...

Send us Fan Mail Discover the remarkable journey of Sir John Timpson, who transformed both his family's historic business and countless lives through revolutionary management practices and profound personal commitment to fostering children. From the humble beginnings of a shoe shop in 1865, Sir John shares how Timpson evolved into a service empire built on a radical premise: trust your people...

Send us Fan Mail A family transformed by fostering shares their raw, honest journey of opening their home to two young children from backgrounds of neglect. After a year of fostering two siblings who arrived unable to use cutlery, without proper clothing, and never having experienced boundaries, this family reveals the beautiful transformation they've witnessed—and experienced themselves. Wha...