LATEST SOCIAL MEDIA
WEEK ENDING 1ST JUNE 2025
THE LATEST POSTS WE HAVE SHARED ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS THIS WEEK
🗣 Two years on, this short article still sums up the reality of the allegations system we live under.
We’re pleased to see the recent ‘Allegations Toolkit’, which shocked so many of us, has now been taken down.
This is rare. Our collective voice made an impact.
More carers are speaking up. Some say they’re on their last placement and have nothing to lose.
Some say it was the final straw. Others say they now feel supported by their own organisations.
Whatever the reason, we’re no longer staying silent.
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Date: 27/05/2025
⏳ “How long do allegations take?” We get asked this all the time.
The honest answer? As long as they like.
There might be “guidelines” and “standards,” but there are no consequences for not sticking to them, and absolutely no accountability (yet).
We’re also more than a little sceptical of the claim that nearly 60% of allegations are resolved in 21 days. That’s not our experience.
While children are left in limbo and carers pushed to the brink, it often feels like nobody’s paying attention.
But here’s the good news: We are now key stakeholders at the DfE’s roundtable discussions on allegations, and we’re finally able to get real frontline feedback to them.
They tell us they’re listening mode. We’ll hold them to that.
Join us: https://nupfc.com/membership/
Date: 28/05/2025
📢 Nearly 70% of foster carers said their real life experience doesn’t match their fostering service’s Ofsted rating.
This comes from the largest independent survey ever done, nearly 2,500 carers took part. Over 600 added comments on this question alone made it clear: they didn’t think the service was better than the rating. Quite the opposite.
No other survey has asked this question before, likely because most are run by the very services being reviewed, or the organisations aligned with them.
We believe it’s time for change.
Ofsted must work with independent, foster carer-led organisations to get real, confidential feedback from the frontline.
How can Ofsted properly rate a service if they don’t hear from the people who actually live it every day?
It’s no wonder there’s such a huge gap between what carers experience and what’s written in the report.
Join now, like car insurance, you have to be a member already when an allegation hits: https://nupfc.com/membership/
Date: 29/05/2025
🧠 We hear a lot about children’s mental health—and rightly so. But what about ours?
Foster carers experience secondary trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, the stress of allegations, and operate in a system where the power imbalance is overwhelming.
Even if the system doesn’t care about our mental health, it should care because the children depend on us.
Foster carers are the backbone of the entire system. Without us, there is no foster care, no agencies, no services, no fostering families. So why are we so often unsupported?
Most carers are too afraid to admit they’re struggling, because saying so risks triggering a standards of care investigation instead of help.
💬 That’s why we’re recommending this exceptional course on foster carer mental health. If you’re a FosterWiki member, it’s completely free.
Take the time to care for you. You’re not alone.
Join us now, don’t delay, as you must be a member already if you need us:
Date: 30/05/2025
Last week we asked foster carers: “What would make you stay?” The answers poured in, raw, honest, and painful to read.
This one stood out.
> If FCs were heard not ignored
> If FCs views were actioned not opposed
> If FCs knowledge of the whole child was recognised and acknowledged not silenced
> If FCs were allowed to be party to decision making surrounding the child’s permanency plan and plans were not ploughed ahead regardless by those who don’t actually know the child
> If FCs weren’t penalised for advocating for the child
> If FCs weren’t blamed when the initial concerns they’d raised come to fruition
> If FCs weren’t dismissed but were trusted and believed
> If the system was honest and untruths weren’t told
> If paperwork was a reflection of the truth and not manipulated to suit their narrative
> If the system didn’t set carers up to fail
> If everyone else put the child at the centre of every decision made, like FCs do
> If the healing of trauma was also part of the “plan”
> If the child’s best interests wishes and feelings mattered to everyone
💬 Can you relate to this?
📣 Because if we ignore what’s wrong, we’ll never fix it.
#FosterCarersVoices #TimeToListen
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Date: 31/05/2025
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