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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£3.4m WASTED on tackling the foster carer shortage, and after 3 years, the evaluation found no significant recruitment gain.
Now they want to spend millions more.
You couldn't make it up.
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NUPFC supports EDM 368, raising children’s attachments, foster carer rights & the Baby Passport in Parliament. NUPFC Executive Niki Kalisperas has helped bring this work forward.
Write to your MP and ask them to support it: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-…
What does £10 a month buy?
Collective protection.
You don't join a union because you expect something to go wrong. You join because if it does, you want to know your union is already there.
NUPFC membership starts at £10.
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No foster carers. No foster care.
We talk about children’s outcomes, placement sufficiency and recruitment. But children experience the system through relationships with the people caring for them.
Supporting foster carers means supporting children.
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School dinners - For foster carers outside the Universal Credit entitlement, meals can come from the fostering allowance — but what happens locally?
NUPFC wants to hear what foster carers are experiencing.
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Fostering can go wrong quickly. NUPFC membership means you have union support in place before you need it. From £10 a month, it’s about planning ahead — so when you need your union, you already have one.
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Fostering is changing. DfE is developing new Fostering Quality Standards and Ofsted is consulting on inspection. What should they know? What should they change? Tell NUPFC.
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Some of the most important things in a child’s life are ordinary: a meal, a safe space, an adult who keeps showing up. The NUPFC supports the people doing that important work. Join us: nupfc.com/join/
The NUPFC didn't just decide to become a union. It had to fight for the right to exist. After losing in 2019, it won at the Court of Appeal in 2021, becoming the UK's first certified foster carer union. The passion to protect children by protecting you - nupfc.com/join/
67% of 2,449 foster carers said their provider’s Ofsted rating did not match their frontline experience. If ratings don't reflect practice or outcomes for children, what exactly are they measuring?
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Ofsted’s ILACS framework evaluates up to 3 foster carer households, selected from LA lists. No minimum. ALL foster carers need a confidential, independent route to tell Ofsted what really happens.
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Independence means independence. If the provider investigating an allegation also chooses or funds your “independent” support, is it really independent? That’s why NUPFC exists.
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