LATEST SOCIAL MEDIA
WEEK ENDING 07TH SEPTEMBER 2025
THE LATEST POSTS WE HAVE SHARED ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS THIS WEEK
Transition time for everyone – and especially for fostering families.
Back to school can bring relief and routine, but also challenges, particularly with so many children managing trauma and neurodiversity.
Services are back in full flow after summer, more checks, more scrutiny. Interesting how we’re trusted when teams are short-staffed, but suddenly under the microscope when they return!
Add in the costs of uniforms, heating, and the general mood shift as summer fades, and it’s no wonder this season feels heavy.
How are you all managing? What’s tough right now, and what are you looking forward to?
✋ Remember – we’re here to help you feel more secure, supported, and protected
Date: 01/09/2025
“I never thought it would happen to us…”
If we had a penny for every time a foster carer said this… we’d be rich.
Every week we hear:
💬 “I never thought it would happen to me. I’ve had nothing but glowing reviews for 15 years, our outcomes have been outstanding!”
💬 “We’ve been on all the posters, met the mayor, everything’s been going fine for 8 years… how could this happen?”
Allegations rarely come with a warning. No foster carer, however popular, is immune.
We’re not here to worry you, we’re here to protect you. To give you that peace of mind, like insurance, you need to be signed up BEFORE it happens.
Don’t wait.
Join us today: 🔗 https://nupfc.com/membership/
Date: 02/09/2025
Who’s joining us 💥
Only a few weeks to go… after so many years, we are now getting so close to the finishing line!
For years, UK foster carers have been excluded from basic employment rights: whistleblowing protections, freedom from discrimination, holiday entitlement, all while our role has become increasingly professionalised. It’s time that changed.
We’d love to see you in London on 24th September as we take our case for carer’s rights to court, to see if we can leapfrog our case straight for the Supreme Court.
📍 Rolls Building, Chancery Lane
🕘 Meet at 9am for media shoot (hearing starts 10am)
👕 Free NUPFC T-shirt for everyone who registers
☕ Afterwards: tea & cakes at Parliament (MP availability permitting)
Pre-register now: enquiries@nupfc.com with “Court 24 September” in the subject line.
This is historic, come stand with carers and show the country we deserve fairness and respect!
🙏 Please support us if you can, every pound help:
Join us today: 🔗 https://nupfc.com/membership/
Date: 03/09/2025
This week your union has been working flat out for foster carers across the country 💪
👉 We helped two fostering families avoid lengthy allegation processes, keeping families together and children settled as they head back to school.
👉 When a panel chair tried to exclude us and deny the carers their legal right to union representation, we stood firm and reminded them of the law, your rights matter, and we’ll defend them.
👉 We’ve had positive talks with providers who are starting to show real commitment to protecting and respecting carers.
👉 Behind the scenes, our legal team is preparing for a huge moment on 24th September, when we go to court to try and take our case straight to the Supreme Court to win rights for every foster carer.
Your union is with you, every step of the way.
Don’t Delay, Join Today 🔗 https://nupfc.com/membership/
Date: 04/09/2025
Birth children are the unsung heroes of foster care 💜
We’ve noticed how this year, a fostering charity’s ‘Children of Foster Carers Month’ has now quietly been reduced to just a week. Despite all the rhetoric about “valuing” them, the truth is our birth children are too often unseen and unheard.
At the NUPFC, every week is birth children week. Our own children live fostering alongside us, their voices matter, their contribution is vital, and we know it’s not always easy.
So here’s to really celebrating the children of foster carers: we see you, we value you, and we thank you. 🙏
Date: 05/09/2025
We’re raising £50000 to Support Foster Carers’ Supreme Court Case for Fair Rights
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