2024 FIYA Awards

We held our annual FIYA Awards on Wednesday evening at Tipton Sports Academy. Young people and staff were joined by the Mayoress of Sandwell, Cllr Sayeda Khatun along with the Leader of the Council, Kerrie Carmichael; Lead Member for Children, Cllr Jalal Uddin; DCS,...

Foster Carer Celebration

We held our annual Foster Carers Celebration at The Hawthorns yesterday and it was lovely to see many of our mainstream and connected carers there. The theme for the day was ‘wellbeing’ and we were joined by 3 speakers who provided some very insightful...

Rolling out the red carpet for our award winning film!

Celebrations at Metsec today as we received not one but two awards for our current fostering film “Any of Us”. Rt Hon Jacqui Smith, Chair of Sandwell Children’s Trust, was on hand to collect the “Best Collaboration” and “Best Creative Comms” awards for the film...

Are you fit to foster?

We’re delighted to working in partnership with our friends at Sandwell Leisure Trust to launch our January ‘Fit to Foster?’ campaign at Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Wednesbury Leisure Centre and Portway Leisure centre. We’ll be having information stands and staff will be...

Foster carers celebration event 2023

We had our foster carers celebration event on the 26 October 2023.  I am pleased to share that the day was a huge success.  It was great to see so many of our carers.  The Rt Hon Jacqui Smith (Chair of the Trust Board) and Emma Taylor, Chief Executive introduced the...