Our Katy on the radio!

We’ve been on Black Country Radio this morning when Katy, one of our foster carers and Brian our Marketing manager were guests on Ken Frances mid-morning show talking about Foster Care Fortnight. We had a great time there and were made very welcome by Ken and all the...

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...