The theme for this month is foster care, and half a dozen articles approach the subject from a variety of angles. Foster care can obviously be a really powerful influence for good in helping damaged children put their lives together. There are also problems, such as the massive shortfall in foster carers at present. The [...]

Ideas for the next six months - and authors are wanted.

Foster care merits professional rewards.

Listening is the start to overcoming disadvantage.

A job for professionals - and there are vacancies.

Finding enough foster carers is a real challenge for UK fostering agencies, yet Pathway Care, one of the nation’s leading independent agencies, continues to grow despite the countrywide shortage. Latest statistics from the Fostering Network estimates a short-fall of some 10,000 foster carers in the UK. So how do we at Pathway do [...]

The danger of dogma in meeting individual needs

Healing processes can help people to adjust.

And the impact on the development of children's brains

Making sense of chaos