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Tips for Carers: Exam Season

Tips for Carers: Exam Season

Exams – who doesn’t remember the nervous wait outside the gym hall, queuing up recounting a the last minute revision session on the bus that morning, clutching your pens and pencils ready sharpened and trying to ignore the nervous feeling in your stomach? Exams...
Tips for Carers: How to keep a young person safe online

Tips for Carers: How to keep a young person safe online

In our latest Tips for Carers blog we take a look at internet safety. The internet can be an amazing resource that enables children and young people to learn, connect, communicate and express creativity in a number of different ways and on a range of devices. However,...
Child Sexual Exploitation

Child Sexual Exploitation

“Child sexual exploitation (CSE)  is a hidden crime . . .people don’t want to talk about it”, says Kendra Houseman the founder of Out the Shadows, a training and consultancy service that provides support on understanding gangs and child sexual exploitation. Most child...
Ascent Fostering’s new campaign: Teenagers are Fun

Ascent Fostering’s new campaign: Teenagers are Fun

Teenagers tend to get a bad rep in the media. We often see reports of teenagers failing at school, wrapped up in the world of social media or displaying anti-social behaviour. These labels tend to stick more to young people who are from a care background, contributing...