Share Your Story
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Form A1: Share Your Story – foster carers
The Fostering Network often gets approached by journalists who would like to speak to foster carers about a range of fostering issues. Media work is important because it allows us to raise awareness of important issues that make the lives of fostered children better. If you would be willing to help us with this media work, please take a few minutes to answer the questions below. Your details will be kept on a database accessible by the press office. We will never give your contact details to a journalist without your permission. Thank you for your time. If you have any queries or comments, please let us know.
Please return forms to: Ellie Jones, Media & Communications Assistant, The Fostering Network, Freepost, 87 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8HA, email media @ fostering.net, phone 020 7620 6425 or fax 020 7620 6401.
1. Personal Details
Your details Partner’s details
Name
Address Phone number Mobile number Email
Date of birth
Gender
Marital status Ethnic origin
Occupation (other than fostering)
2. Media experience
The Fostering Network 87 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8HA t 020 7620 6400 f 020 7620 6401 e info @ fostering.net www.fostering.net Chief Executive Robert Tapsfield Fostering Network Registered in England and Wales as a limited company no 1507277 Registered charity no. 280852 VAT Registration no. 231 6335 90 Registered office 87 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8HA Do you have any experience of talking to journalists? Y/N Have you ever done a TV interview? Y/N Have you ever done a radio interview? Y/N Are you willing to be interviewed by a newspaper or magazine about fostering? Y/N Are you willing to be interviewed on the radio about fostering? Y/N Are you willing to be interviewed for television about fostering? Y/N Are you willing to be interviewed for the Fostering Network’s Foster Care magazine? Y/N Are you willing to be interviewed for online media (eg BBC online) Y/N Are you happy to have your photograph appear in a publication? Y/N Are you able to do interviews in a language other than English, if so which?
3. Fostering details
How long have you been fostering?
Approx how many children have you fostered?
What age of children do you foster?
Why did you decide to apply to become a foster carer?
Do you have any fostered children and young people in your care at present? If so, how many and how old are they?
If full permission was obtained do you have any children/young people in your care willing to do media work? Y/N Do you have any birth or adopted children? If so, how many and how old are they?
Have you adopted any of the children you have fostered? If so, how many?
Who do you foster for?
What type(s) of foster care do you provide?
The Fostering Network 87 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8HA t 020 7620 6400 f 020 7620 6401 e info @ fostering.net www.fostering.net Chief Executive Robert Tapsfield Fostering Network Registered in England and Wales as a limited company no 1507277 Registered charity no. 280852 VAT Registration no. 231 6335 90 Registered office 87 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8HA Long-term Y/N Short-term Y/N Emergency Y/N Short break/respite Y/N
Do you provide any of the following types of specialist care?
Intensive/treatment Y/N Remand Y/N Disabled children Y/N Mother and baby Y/N Specialist teenage Y/N Family and friends/kinship Y/N Other, please describe:
4. Fostering experiences Some foster carers want to promote fostering and the vital role that foster carers do. Others prefer to focus on campaigning for change. Please indicate areas you would be keen to speak to the media about:
General promotion of fostering Y/N Recruitment (for example Foster Care Fortnight) Y/N Pay Y/N Allowances Y/N Support for foster carers Y/N Status of foster carers Y/N Allegations Y/N Learning and development Y/N Outcomes for children Y/N Leaving care Y/N Other, please describe:
The Fostering Network 87 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8HA t 020 7620 6400 f 020 7620 6401 e info @ fostering.net www.fostering.net Chief Executive Robert Tapsfield Fostering Network Registered in England and Wales as a limited company no 1507277 Registered charity no. 280852 VAT Registration no. 231 6335 90 Registered office 87 Blackfriars Road London SE1 8HA