No child in placement. No income. No financial safety net. Yet foster carers must remain trained, approved and available. The fostering workforce deserves rights, not just gratitude. Join NUPFC.
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Meet Robin and Chris from NUPFC. Behind the scenes, our team defends members, pursues legal challenges and campaigns for better rights. Keeping good carers caring, for the children who need them.
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Happy memories don't happen by accident. They take skilled foster carers navigating trauma, permissions, risk, finances and professional system, often fighting for a child's best interests.
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Halloween to Christmas: with fuel, food and bills soaring, are fostering allowances keeping pace? Can carers afford to give children the experiences they deserve without subsidising care themselves?
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NUPFC is increasingly encountering allegations procedures apparently used in response to professional disagreements. Safeguarding must never become a tool for silencing foster carers.
Misuse must be stamped out.
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Support is not representation. A cup of tea, a sympathetic ear and a generic legal helpline are not a defence. When your approval is at stake, who is actually representing YOU?
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New draft Fostering Standards say carers facing allegations or standards of concern should be able to CHOOSE their independent advocacy provider. A significant proposed shift towards carer choice.
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Fostering can change like the British weather: sunshine one minute, a storm the next. ☀ 🌧 Don't wait for a crisis. Join the NUPFC and know you have a union behind you when it matters.
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Rewriting the NMS doesn't make them rules. Without accountability or consequences, what changes? Carers don't need political spin. They need meaningful reform. This is no way to rebuild trust or retention.
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Government’s big new recruitment idea? Spend millions targeting 30 and 40 year olds who’ve never considered fostering because apparently they have the ‘values’.
What about existing carers?
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Exclude foster-carer-led organisations and hope carers stay quiet? Think again. They’re uniting, organising and speaking out — where potential recruits can read every word.
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GOVERNMENT ISSUES POLICY STATEMENT WHICH STRENGTHENS THE CASE FOR OBTAINING SPECIAL WORKER STATUS FOR CARERS.
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Foster carers are expected to be trauma-informed and therapeutic. But what if the system isn’t?
NUPFC says the whole system must practise what it preaches. Why isn’t it?
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NUPFC is contacting fostering leaders about carers’ right to join a union. We’ll monitor compliance and pursue tribunals where legally justified. Share our joining link with fellow carers!
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“You keep going on about allegations.” Yes, unashamedly. They ruin lives, disrupt children’s care, and demand justice. NUPFC fights for carers’ legal protection, representation and accountability.
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Foster carers often know children better than anyone, yet are sidelined from decisions about their futures. NUPFC is fighting for the rights and recognition carers deserve.
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NUPFC’s Robin Findlay and team have fought for years, at enormous personal and financial cost, for foster carers’ legal rights. Their dedication and determination deserve recognition.
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NUPFC supports Jo White MP’s EDM 368, raising children’s attachments, foster carer rights & the Baby Passport in Parliament. NUPFC Executive Niki Kalisperas has helped bring this work forward.
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Why join a union if everything is going well? Because that's when you can afford to.
Saving £10 a month can be a false economy if something goes wrong and you discover you don't have independent support in place.
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Do foster carers get into trouble for advocating too strongly? 41% said fear of allegations stops them advocating fully. Children need carers who can speak up without fear. Your union can help.
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