Foster carers

[mamath]

what are mums' views on foster carers?

i have good views.

why

I am a foster carer. Why do you ask?

need a bit more info really OP

Don't know why but this one is screaming "Newspaper Article" at me...ask an open question and see what comes out of it...

Mum's views on foster carers? You want me to tell you all mums views on all foster carers? Hmm

I think family carers should get the same allowance as standard foster carers

Link to news?

Normally when you start a thread on 'In The News', you link to the story in the news that you wish to discuss Linkie please, mamath.

What aspect of being a foster carer would you like our views on?

op. your op was a bit rubbish

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Big up Junglist! Rah.

Message withdrawn

I agree junglist and che

Thank you for your feedback to an open Q.

FC are in the news -

• raised professional pay lobbying -

and in the media - double spread advertising recruitment campaigns.

As I would imagine, numbers of responsible foster carers participate on mumsnet

because the worst nightmare FCs, are probably elsewhere.

I ask because I support parents who have had their children removed from them unlawfully by the state only then to experience their cherished children being abused or neglected in forced foster care.

Many of these ordinary parents suffered the abuses and indignity of failed foster care themselves, and this fact of life has predisposed them in the strategic objectives of the state to have their children removed from them by force, upon no evidence and a new type of quite fluid clairvoyancy.

Gosh.
Right.

Um...

Bit heavy for a friday night for me, sorry.

Link to articles you mention would be good though.

There is someone on here who has had experience of what you speak of, very very sad story, I can't remember her name though.

Big up your chest each and every time brap

I think they should be paid much, much better given that they do such a difficult, important and intensive 24/7 job. Foster care should be seen as a profession.

Why should foster care be seen as a profession, when parenthood clearly should not?

As a profession, there would have to be contractual accountability.

There are ways of recognising dignity which are not necessarily synonymous with the word profession.

Some of the mums made a good point about the budget of family carers or perhaps the survival payments for lone parents getting back on their feet: these sums are way way below what a foster carer is paid.

I might add to my earlier post, many other of the ordinary parents I refer to have not been in foster care.
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7050522.ece

Your link doesn't work mamath

Foster care isn't the same as parenthood though is it? Most foster carers aren't related to the children they care for, they have to adhere to social services' rules, the children are normally with them temporarily, they do difficult work abused/neglected/traumatised children.

It's not the same as parenthood at all.

In any other job working with children we recognise the importance of attracting the best people, paying well, having high levels of training, development and support. Why is foster care - the most important and life changing work with children - seen as different?

I always find it strange when people want foster care to be some kind of hobby for do-gooders No one says we shouldn't pay teachers, nurses etc well because they should do it out of the goodness of their hearts rather than for money.

StewieGriffinsMom, I personally have known a lot more children to be abused in foster care, but let us not create a generalised dichotomy here.

I wanted to know what people thought about the FC role, whilst highlighting that many parents across the UK have had their children taken unlawfully only to see them abused in laissez faire foster care placements or forcibly adopted out all family ties including grandparents and other kin severed.

Of course a comperehensive availability of quality foster care is a desireable factor in society to fall back on, but I question a recruitment campaign in the context of increasing numbers of parents having their children earmarked and taken from by all accounts ordinary caring families.

I give it another go

women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7050522.ece

No good I have to try something else