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Guest interviews
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United Kingdom
107 episodes
since Feb. 16, 2023
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Send us Fan Mail After 15 years in a soulless corporate job, Travis walked away to become a foster carer — and never looked back. Over the past 11 years, he and his wife have fostered 16 teenage boys with extreme complex needs, transforming lives through an approach built on trust, authenticity, an…

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Send us Fan Mail Two women. Two generations. Two completely different experiences of the menopause.In this episode, 79-year-old social worker and foster carer Christine shares her story of sailing through the menopause with little more than hot flushes and a sense of relief, while her daughter-in-l…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Helen is joined by Lisa from FosterTalk — a vital support service available to all National Fostering Group carers across England, Scotland, and Wales. Lisa breaks down the wide range of support on offer, from legal insurance and allegation s…
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a Christmas radio ad tugs at your heartstrings while you're pregnant with your second child? For Natalie, it sparked a fostering journey that has welcomed eight or nine children into her home over the past five years — and she's not stopping anytime soon…
Send us Fan Mail What happens when someone who grew up in the care system decides to become a foster carer themselves? In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Helen sits down with Kerry — a foster carer of nearly five years whose own experience in care fuels her passion for helping children today. …
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Helen sits down with Chelsey, a carer recruitment officer at Brighter Futures Foster Care, whose journey into fostering began at just 16 years old after a conversation with a neighbour. Chelsey shares her deeply personal experience of fosteri…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Voices of Fostering, host Helen sits down with Julie, a foster carer of nearly nine years, to talk about her family's journey into fostering. Julie shares what led her and her husband to explore fostering, what the assessment process was really like, and how…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Voices of Fostering, host Helen sits down with Kathryn, a Supervising Social Worker at the National Fostering Group with an incredible 16 years of experience in the role. Kathryn takes us through her remarkable career journey — from an unexpected turn away from t…
Send us Fan Mail Fiza returns to Voices of Fostering to share what's changed in the year since her last visit — and it's a lot. Now almost 12 years into her fostering journey, she opens up about caring for a young person through therapeutic parenting, including a powerful moment where she…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Voices of Fostering, we sit down with Stephen, a retired father of two who found an unexpected calling in stay-over foster care. After spotting an advert in a charity shop window, Stephen went from browsing to becoming an approved foster carer in just six months …
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