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Welcome to Fostering: A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Andy (Ed) Elvin
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Description for Welcome to Fostering: A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Paperback. The comprehensive guide to foster parenting, this book offers guidance on all aspects of fostering. Exploring the practicalities of receiving a new child in the home, and how to deal with the more complex issues that may arise, this book covers the joy and wonder of fostering as well as how to cope with the crises and setbacks. Editor(s): Elvin, Andy; Barrow, Martin. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JKSF; VFV; VFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive. Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could ... Read more
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive. Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785922046
SKU
V9781785922046
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Andy (Ed) Elvin
Andy Elvin is CEO of the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, TACT. Martin Barrow is an experienced journalist, formerly News Editor of the Times, PR, Huffington Post, foster carer and foster care commentator/blogger.
Reviews for Welcome to Fostering: A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
It's the book I wish I'd had when I was considering fostering and in my first few years.
Maxine Taylor, Foster carer This is a great guide, packed full of information and insight about how best to navigate the world of fostering.
Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children This beautiful quote will stay with me forever: ... Read more
Maxine Taylor, Foster carer This is a great guide, packed full of information and insight about how best to navigate the world of fostering.
Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children This beautiful quote will stay with me forever: ... Read more