Trauma-Informed Care and Why It Matters
A trauma-informed care is when all parties involved recognise and respond to the impact of traumatic affects on those who have contact with the service including children, caregivers, and service providers. To begin to address this issue, training in trauma-informed care is paramount. Our ARC Skills workshops and processing groups are important to build the knowledge and skills among staff and foster carers to deliver trauma informed care, being sensitive to how a range of experiences may relate to a person’s current behaviours and health status. The experience of trauma impacts every area of functioning, including physical, mental, behavioural, and …
Upcoming Foster Carers End of Year Awards 2019
On Friday 6th December 2019 our Sunbeam London region will be hosting it’s annual Foster Carers End of Year Party. This year we will also be celebrating 20 years of Sunbeam Fostering. Our evening will be full of fun, with our foster carer awards and recognition for all their hard work and dedication, celebrating with a three course meal, followed by a chocolate fountain and our DJ. A Fun Photo Booth provided by Party Spirit Photo Booth to include complimentary photos as keepsakes of this special celebratory event. Their colourful themed props are certain to add fun to capturing your …
Anti-Bullying Week 11th – 15th November 2019
Anti-bullying week takes place every year in November. The week is ran by ‘Anti-Bullying Alliance’ and the theme for this year is ‘Change Starts With Us’. The aim of this week is to raise as much awareness about anti-bullying as possible and how to make children and young people feel safe at school, home and online at all times, and help them to know what to do if they feel concerned about something. With online activities and social media becoming more and more popular, it can be a daunting thought on how you can keep your child safe online, and …
National Care Leaver Week 2019
This week is all about National Care Leaver’s Week 2019 ran by IMO. The week runs from 28th October until 3rd of November, the campaign has been designed to help provide a voice platform for teenagers in care and for care leavers. This week is to help share amazing stories, experiences and achievements from care leaver’s. The theme for this year is future aspirations, where care leaver’s see themselves in the future and what they’d like to achieve as well as sharing about current successes which will help them achieve their ambitions and dreams. One of Sunbeam Fostering Agencies care …
Sons and Daughters Month 2019
Sons and Daughters Month 2019 A family can be defined in many ways, but it is the unconditional love, support and gratitude that makes a family who they are. In today’s society, there is not a stereotypical family as there might be single parents, same sex parents, or parents who significantly work together as co-parents. However, no matter what their circumstances, they do their up-most best to provide a loving and stable home environment to the children in their care. This month, The Fostering Network is launching their annual UK campaign of celebrating the hard work that Sons and Daughters …
LGBT Fostering
If you are from the LGBT community, you may be wondering if fostering is something that could be for you. At Sunbeam Fostering Agency, we have many carers from the LGBT community to help provide loving, caring and safe environments for our children and young people. We welcome people from all walks of life, different backgrounds with all sorts of life experiences. People from the LGBT Community have been fostering and adopting children and there are many examples of children growing up safely and happily with LGBT foster carers. We believe that it’s your personal qualities that make you a …
My Fostering Story
My Fostering Story, At the age of 8 years old, I was placed into the care system due to at that time not being able to live with my biological mum. I was in foster care for 10 years in total; to begin with, I was placed with one family for 1 year. However, after 1 year of me being at the home, the placement broke down and was no longer suitable for me. I then moved to the placement that I lived in for the next 11 years. Initially, this placement was only going to be temporary, however as …
Sunbeam Pride Fostering Service
Sunbeam Pride Fostering Service is an Independent Fostering Agency registered with Ofsted providing high quality and well supported fostering placements for a diverse range of looked after children and young people. The company was established in 2009 and is based in Luton. Sunbeam Pride provide specialist placements for children with complex and challenging needs as well as mainstream foster care. We offer very competitive fostering allowances to cover the children’s needs and provide rates of pay for our carers and provide excellent support from skilled and experienced social workers. Sunbeam Pride offer a number of training courses for our foster …
16 Nutritious Kid-Friendly Recipes for the Grill
This summer, think outside! With a range of grilling recipes guaranteed to appeal to kids. As we head into summer grilling season, parents begin stocking up on that reliable, kid-friendly staple: the hot dog. As controversial as forcemeat can be—we’re looking at you, bologna! — the hot dog is nevertheless a standby option for filling bellies and making sure picky eaters get their daily calories. They’re easy to toss on the grill along with whatever the adults are eating. But for those of us who don’t want to feed our kids the same thing every day, here are some options …
Things to do around Birmingham this summer
How to keep children engaged during the summer holidays in Birmingham Want a great day out full of thrill seeking adventure, activity and fun? There are quite a few events and activities being organised around Birmingham which will be perfect fun for all the family. Curious About Birmingham! Explore, Discover & Enjoy Birmingham with two self-guided, quirky, heritage walks with an optional treasure hunt. Are you curious about Birmingham? Looking for an unusual and quirky activity which gets you out in the fresh air whatever the weather? Open till 26 Oct 2019 Touchwood’s urban beach is back in Solihull! You won’t have …
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Testimonials
This job is probably one of my favourites. Every day is different, every day has new challenges and every day has new rewards. It’s not always easy but each challenge you go through with the child bonds you and makes you both stronger for each other.
Foster Carer
We have been fostering for the last 8 years and feel proud to be a part of the Sunbeam family. At the beginning, we thought it’s a tough job, but the skills to foster initial training and the whole assessment procedure to become a carer was interesting, and it gave us both a broad insight into both the tough and rewarding side of what we were likely to encounter.
Hannah and Kashif
“Fostering is a rewarding experience as it allows you to actually make a difference for a child/young person. I feel happy being able to make such a difference whether it is for one day or several years.”
Asma
“When they told me that I had been approved for fostering, well I just cried. I was an emotional wreck and was so happy that I just couldn’t hold back my very, very, happy tears.”
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