A busy first week of Foster Care Fortnight!

To mark the start of the campaign we joined the One Stop Shop team at Sandwell Council House for a pop-up information stand where we had some great conversations about fostering with members of the public and council staff. We also launched a new dedicated...

Foster Care Fortnight

Foster Care Fortnight starts on Monday (12 May). This is one of the highlights of the year for our fostering service, so we are pleased to tell you we have a busy two weeks coming up. Online we will have a series of testimonies from our foster carers reflecting on...

Inspection report published

Following the Ofsted inspection of our Fostering services in October, we are pleased to inform that the report has now been published on the Ofsted website. Overall, the independent fostering agency provides effective services and the overall judgements was GOOD. This...

Fostering is….. ‘Everything’

‘Everything’ follows foster carer Mike and his family on a journey through time with two of the children they have looked after, who are now adults. A surprise 60th  birthday party for Mike gives Will and Zara a chance to reflect on how being fostered made a...

Fostering Friendly Employer

Sandwell Children’s Trust are happy to announce we are now a Fostering Friendly employer – a programme by The Fostering Network, which helps organisations to actively support fostering, and in particular, foster carer employees. We have implemented a policy to make a...

Jobs Fair & support from the mayor

Good to be out and about again at Sandwell Council’s jobs & careers fair at Oldbury council house yesterday. We had some great conversations and it was  a great networking opportunity with the other stallholders too. To top it all we also had a visit from...