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Find out what’s been happening with the Safehouses team and our foster families.
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Why foster teenagers? Tackling the youth foster carer crisis in…
Overview: A look at the urgent need for more homes for teenagers in foster care and the need for foster…
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How to meet children’s needs in a trans-racial foster placement
Overview: A look at the rising demand for foster carers in Manchester. Important considerations and tips for successful trans-racial foster…
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How to become foster care approved in Manchester – a…
Overview: A summary of how to become a foster parent in Manchester, looking at steps for foster care approval. Plus,…
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Safehouses Fostering and Adoption Support in Manchester – top tips…
Overview: A look at the support available for foster carers in Manchester and surrounding areas and differences between adoption and…
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Short-term fostering in Manchester – how does it work, and…
Overview: Exploring short-term fostering in Manchester and surrounding areas, including how much you get paid for short-term fostering and respite…
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Celebrating Community this Foster Care Fortnight
Foster Care Fortnight 2023 is celebrated from 15th – 28th May. This year the theme is #FosteringCommunties! Foster Care Fortnight 2023 is a…
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Parent and child fostering in and around Manchester – what…
Overview: Here, we will explore parent and child fostering in Manchester and the support available for Safehouses foster carers. We…
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How We’re Celebrating Care Day 2023
Friday, 17 February, is Care Day – the world’s biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience! This…
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Self care at Christmas
Christmas, the period around it, and winter in general can bring moments of real joy, but they can also present…
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In Memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022
Safehouses was deeply saddened by the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022. During the 70 years of…
Foster Stories
Becky’s foster story
Meet Becky, 29, from Oldham. Becky was a teenager when her own parents started fostering and now she is following…
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Safehouses at The Pink Picnic
We recently had a great time at The Pink Picnic in Salford celebrating pride, whilst chatting to people about their…
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Celebrating Foster Care Fortnight
In celebration of Foster Care Fortnight, we had a fantastic celebration with our foster carers to mark this special time.…
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Memory boxes
At Safehouses we recently held a craft day where our young people made ‘memory boxes’, to keep their precious items…
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Celebrating Earth Day
Well done to J, who had the winning design in our Earth Day artwork competition! We asked the young people…
Foster Stories
Gareth’s foster story
Meet Gareth. One of our care leavers, Gareth explains in the video below, what it has meant to him to…
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Celebrating National Care Day
Today is #CareDay22 and we’re celebrating our amazing children and young people with experience of the care system. We want…
Foster Stories
Paul and Debbie’s foster story
“We had talked about fostering for years but we waited until out our youngest child had grown up. The Out…
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What type of foster carer should I be and why?
If you’ve decided to pursue a career in foster care then that’s amazing news to us. In our opinion, you’ve…
Foster Stories
Meet our foster carer
Foster Carer Q&A: Karen from West Yorkshire Safehouses stalwart, Karen, has fostered 27 children since becoming a foster carer with us…
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Are you an experienced foster carer? Here are five reasons…
Foster carers everywhere we salute you. Every day you go above and beyond to provide a safe and nurturing home environment for a child or young person…
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Do I need experience with children to be a foster…
As with most things in life, previous experience makes everything a little easier but it’s definitely not essential to become…
We are absolutely thrilled to have received a fantastic £200 from Tesco in Greenfield, towards our defibrillator fund.
We are very grateful for the support from their Community Champion, Greg Barrett, and their team, for supporting our cause.
If you would like to support our children in their efforts to raise money for a community defib in Denshaw village, please go to our Just Giving page.
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Each year for Care Day, our children and young people take part in a sponsored event to raise money towards a charitable cause.
This year, Safehouses will be raising money for a life-saving community defibrillator ❤️ to be installed outside the Safehouses office, based in Denshaw, Saddleworth.
Our families and staff will be completing a sponsored walk on Thursday 20th February. If you would like to sponsor them, go to our Just Giving page:
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We have an information stand at Eureka! Museum in Halifax today. If you are visiting as a family, look out for our Engagement Social Worker, Angela 👋
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We are sharing information about fostering at Denton's Crown Point North Retail Park today. Stop and have a chat with Michelle and Jess about becoming a foster family.
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We are supporting @Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week.
Mental health and emotional wellbeing are extremely important for children in foster care. Many have experienced difficult journeys in their early childhood, parental mental health difficulties and often need support understanding their identity.
The message of this year's campaign is very poignant in helping both children and their caregivers in developing resilience and being healthy in body and mind.
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Know Yourself, Grow Yourself: why self-awareness is as important in parenting as it is for children
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Self-awareness can help parents to get the best out of themselves and their child. Place2Be's Head of Parenting, Cecilia Corbetta, has shared examples of how self-awareness can help you grow as a pare...Introducing 'Wellbeing Wednesdays' 💆
We know that fostering can sometimes feel like a thankless task, and it is difficult to find the time to focus on taking care of yourself. This is important to be able to provide the best care to children, especially those children with extra need. We will be running regular wellbeing sessions for all our foster carers.
Yesterday we were lucky enough to be joined by Wendy of @healinghandsofsaddleworth, who delivered head, shoulder and neck massages to foster carers and staff.
Keep a look out for what we have planned for our next wellbeing session 💞
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