Alicia

Well, we certainly ‘hit the ground running’ at the start of 2018. Just one week into the new year we received a call from Ofsted giving us 48 hours-notice of the Inspection of our North East region. This is the…

The Foster Care Co-operative, along with Team Fostering and Together Trust, have been mentioned in the Fostering Stocktake Report – published in February 2018. The report states that the three agencies, along with TACT, charge local authorities low fees for…

Ian Brazier has blogged about his involvement in a workshop called Alchemy, which took place at Coventry City Council on the 20th and 21st November last year. The workshop was the coming together of Social Enterprise leaders, commissioners, funders and…

Lynn Findlay, one of FCC’s Supervising Social Workers, writes a monthly blog about e-safety for children and young people. Her July edition is all about managing children’s time online and offline during the summer holidays: The long summer holidays can…

Skyrocket founding agency, Foster Care Co-operative, said a fond farewell to their CEO, Ian ‘The Colonel’ Brazier last week! Ian retired after a celebratory lunch at FCC headquarters in Malvern, attended by staff and foster carers. They even managed to…

A Malvern fostering agency is taking a lead role in a groundbreaking move to improve fostering standards. The Foster Care Co-operative, based at Spring Lane, has joined forces with the Children’s Family Trust, based in Bromsgrove, and Gloucestershire-based Community Foster…

Here is some of the feedback we received from our Fostering Registered Managers course, held in June. “It’s helped demystify, which has in turn lowered anxiety, along with sharing experiences, has increased my confidence.” (JF) “Increased awareness of complexity of…

“This recent residential course was attended by three of our managers. I just wanted you to know that I have received extremely positive feedback from them about the course and how relevant and appropriate the content was. In particular they…