Sunbeam Fostering Agency and 20 years of success
Sunbeam Fostering agency is one of the UK largest and most progressive independent fostering agencies. Recently we have celebrated 20 years of success. We are very thankful to all our foster carers for all their input and hard work. Independent research has demonstrated that the longer a young person can stay with a foster family, the more successful they are later on. In those 20 years, we have achieved some amazing goals. Sunbeam has provided a combined length of service of over 4,000 years across all foster carers We have supported 5000 children and young persons 95% of our care …
As a Foster Carer how to cope with everyday’s challenges and support from Sunbeam
Fostering is a way of providing a stable family life for children and young people, who are unable to live with their parents at a point in time. This allows children the chance to thrive in a safe, secure, loving and caring home environment with foster carers. The children and young people placed with foster carers are from a diverse range of backgrounds and will display different behaviour depending upon their various experiences. In the world of fostering both foster cares and looked after children face challenges. The challenges are as followed: Firstly, managing challenging behaviour. Foster children are often …
Foster Carers End of Year Awards 2019
Foster Carers End of Year Awards 2019 – Celebrating 20 Years of Success! Sunbeam Fostering Agency annual End of Year Celebrations took place on Friday 6th December 2019 at Meridian Grand. The evening was a great success, with over 250 guests who attended enjoying the evenings celebrations and the outstanding efforts and achievements of our foster carers this year. For Sunbeam Fostering Agency, this year has been extra special as we celebrated 20 years of Sunbeam and its success! The evening was a great opportunity for our team members and foster carers to meet one another and celebrate together. It …
Fostering at Christmas
Christmas is a special time of year when families come together to celebrate the holiday season. However, for some children and young people in care, this can be a difficult time and a time when they might feel most alone. As Christmas is very much promoted as a vision of the perfect family enjoying the festivities, it can emphasise for some children, the absence of their family. A child or young person may have never experienced and had their own Christmas before, or even the festivities that come along with the jolly period. Talk about Christmas with your child, let …
Challenges
In the world of fostering both foster cares and looked after children face challenges. Firstly, managing challenging behaviour. Foster children are often complex individuals with complex needs and backgrounds. Quite often this is due to what they’ve been through. Foster children may seem antisocial or self-destructive behaviour such as violence, tantrums, self-harm or running away from home. Foster carers need to deal with this in a gentle way with patience. Full training will be given on tips to help you approach different situations, and foster carers will always have a supporting social worker to help when needed. Secondly, interacting with …
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 …
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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