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Celebrating LGBT+ History Month 2022
Celebrating LGBT+ History Month 2022
08 Feb 2022

This month is LGBT+ History Month, and this year the organisers have chosen a quote by Martin Luther King Jr, which got the Affinity team thinking; “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it...

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 – Celebrating growing together
Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 – Celebrating growing together
07 Feb 2022

Fostering and a focus on mental health are two things that go hand in hand. From looking after children and young people who may have experienced trauma and are living with the continued impact, to...

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Internet Safety Day 2022 Resources
Internet Safety Day 2022 Resources
23 Jan 2022

Internet Safety Day takes place on the 8th of February this year, there are some fantastic from the Safer Internet resources and twinkl also have some great resources.  Also, fantastic resources can...

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Foster Caring at Christmas; making it special for your whole family
Foster Caring at Christmas; making it special for your whole family
26 Nov 2021

Christmas is a funny time of year for all of us; some embrace every second of it, putting up their tree in November and bedecking the house with lights, others take a slightly less full-on approach,...

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Anti bullying week 2021
Anti bullying week 2021
17 Nov 2021

The 15th - 19th of November 2021 is anti-bullying week, the Anti-bullying Alliance choose the Odd Sock campaign along with the One Kind Word campaign to bring attention to the ongoing issue of...

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Why teachers make ideal foster carers
Why teachers make ideal foster carers
09 Nov 2021

Most of us can remember a favourite teacher, that person who helped us understand difficult concepts, who would smile when we asked a question, or who listened when we’d fallen out with friends on...

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Black History Month reminds us that we need more carers from black and mixed ethnicity backgrounds
Black History Month reminds us that we need more carers from black and mixed ethnicity backgrounds
07 Oct 2021

Black History Month is a time for all of us to sit and reflect on the impact that past actions have had on black and minority ethnicity people living within our society. The past is something that...

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Annual ‘Men in Foster Care’ event – Celebrating Affinity’s Incredible Men
Annual ‘Men in Foster Care’ event – Celebrating Affinity’s Incredible Men
12 Oct 2021

We take a day every year to focus on the amazing men who form part of our Affinity family, for fun, team bonding, and to look at the issues and concerns affecting their role as foster carers. Men...

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Guidance for completing Form F
Guidance for completing Form F
17 Sep 2021

A successful foster carer application goes far beyond you deciding that you’d like to foster a child or young person and us nodding and saying, “yes, they’d be great foster carers”. You also...

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Attachment: How our team build healthy and secure relationships with our young people
Attachment: How our team build healthy and secure relationships with our young people
17 Sep 2021

For children and young people, the relationships we have with adults in our lives can have an ongoing impact on our development all the way into adulthood. As babies, we are born with a biological...

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