Education & Young People Community & Social Justice Enhanced 2025
The Fostering Network

Annual Review 2024-25

The Fostering Network, the UK's leading fostering charity, published its 2024-25 Annual Review covering a year of programme growth and policy influence. The Fostering Friendly Employers scheme expanded to cover 680,000 employees; 95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers are active in Wales; and 191 young people engaged in adventure programmes in Northern Ireland. A refreshed five-year strategy was launched and parliamentary debates on foster care took place in all four nations. Total income was £9.36m and expenditure £7.97m.

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Foster Care Fortnight national campaign; Mockingbird Family Model; Step Up Step Down programme; Young People's Advisory Boards (Scotland, Wales, NI); Fostering Attainment and Achievement (NI); Kinship care support; policy and advocacy across all four UK nations; member legal and training services; #TicktheBox campaign Custom geography from upload: England & Wales

📊Key Metrics

55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK Key Metric 1
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK Key Metric 2
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
  • Parliamentary debates on foster care held in Welsh Parliament, Scottish Parliament and Westminster during Foster Care Fortnight 2024
  • New five-year strategy launched with clear ambition to enrich, empower and strengthen bonds across the UK fostering community

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