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Fostering

July 2024

  • James Timpson, in a suit jacket, shirt and tie, grins broadly as he stands in front of a Union Jack flag in an official photo

    Prison reform experts hail role for shoe repair CEO James Timpson

    The new prisons minister heads the successful Timpson group, whose employees include ex-offenders

May 2024

  • Small boy playing alone in a park

    Monetising children in care is morally bankrupt

    Letters: David Scattergood on how the work of independent fostering agencies is offering a glimmer of hope and Peter RC Williams on the government’s obligations. Plus a letter from Nina Lopez and Tracey Norton
  • George Monbiot

    How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel

    George Monbiot
    Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • A paper chain of a family shown in silhouette against a wall

    Children in danger as NSW child protection reaches crisis point, striking caseworkers say

    Public-sector workers call for pay rise, 500 additional staff and the de-privatising of out-of-home care

April 2024

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Republic of Parenthood
    Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    My schoolfriend’s comedy show sheds light on what foster caring is like for those in their 30s, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

March 2024

  • Black and white shot of Samantha Morton and Richard Russell behind them is a boat on a beach.

    Samantha Morton and Richard Russell on their new album: ‘We’re in the business of wellbeing’

    The Oscar-nominated actor and the boss of XL Recordings – now a synth-pop duo performing ghostly songs with lyrics rooted in childhood trauma – discuss the healing power of making art

February 2024

  • Family paper chain of people / dolls shadows / silhouettes against wall

    ‘Incredibly disturbing’: calls for audit of out-of-home care providers after court hears Aboriginal baby’s aunt refused as carer due to same-sex relationship

    Two of the biggest Aboriginal groups in NSW claim racism is ‘rife’ in the child protection system, which needs an overhaul

January 2024

  • Pauline Gill in 1946

    Other lives
    Pauline Gill obituary

    Other lives: One of the ‘Bletchley Girls’ who operated decoding machines during the second world war

December 2023

  • Sosa Henkoma portrait

    How we survive
    I was trafficked by drug gangs as a child, shot at and stabbed 11 times. Here is how I escaped

    Sosa Henkoma was eight when he ran away from violence at home - and just 12 when he was given his first gun. He describes how fatherhood, therapy and sheer luck saved him
  • William Tyrrell's foster parents leave Parramatta Local Court in Sydney on Monday 4 December 2023

    William Tyrrell’s foster father argues ‘lawful’ force used on another child as punishment, NSW court hears

    Foster parents of missing William Tyrrell facing court on assault and intimidation charges of another child who was in their care
  • Two adults and child standing by river

    Thousands of new foster carers urgently needed in England, experts say

    Social workers scrambling to find places for children after net loss of 1,000 foster families in past year

November 2023

  • ‘I didn’t realise, growing up, that the films I loved were written and directed by black women’ … Leaf, who is following in their footsteps with Earth Mama.

    ‘More athletes should do films!’ Savanah Leaf, the volleyball Olympian turned Ken Loach-style director

    She turned to film after an injury and has now made her heartbreaking debut – about a woman fighting to get her kids out of foster care and keep her unborn child. So what is the young powerhouse going to conquer next?

September 2023

  • Floella Benjamin

    Adopted children also need help breaking the ‘care ceiling’

    Letters: Adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, notes Kimberly Clarke

August 2023

  • A group of children from a nursery school in high visibility jackets walking with teachers or childcare workers through a park in winter

    Golden goose: why private equity is eyeing up UK essential services

  • Grandparents on a walk outside with their grandchild.

    The Guardian view on kinship carers: grandparents can’t repair a broken care system

July 2023

  • Young woman silhouetted against a window

    ‘Shocked to the core’: Queensland ex-residential youth care worker says she received very little training

  • ‘Can you imagine growing up without a mum and dad?’ Joe Swash with Karl.

    TV review
    Joe Swash: Teens in Care review – the sheer number of children failed by the system is profoundly wrong

May 2023

  • Child's hand gripping mother's hand

    Australia’s kinship carers desperate for support as numbers of children in out-of-home care grow

    Jane spent two decades as a foster carer. Her grandchildren are the 64th and 65th children she has opened her home to

April 2023

  • Lorraine Tollemache

    Other lives
    Lorraine Tollemache obituary

  • Child in dark room

    Britain’s care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away

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