Cumbria County Council is running a number of fostering information events across the county during Foster Care Fortnight, the UK’s biggest foster carer recruitment drive, which takes place this year from Monday May 13 to Sunday May 26.

In its latest foster carer recruitment campaign launched this week Cumbria County Council is keen to highlight the many different types of fostering, which can fit with different lifestyles.

One of Cumbria’s smallest churches, the St Simon and St Kentigern Orthodox Church in Dalton, is the latest church to become fostering friendly.

During LGBT+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2019 (March 4 to 10) members of the LGBT+ community in Cumbria are invited to find out more about adopting and fostering at events in Carlisle and Barrow.

A leader at Millom Baptist Church, the latest church to sign up to Cumbria County Council’s Fostering Friendly Churches (FFC) scheme, has talked about about how much the support from church networks can mean for foster carers.

As part of an ongoing campaign Cumbria County Council is trying to find more foster carers in Eden who can offer long-term homes to siblings and help them stay together.

Long serving foster carers from the north of Cumbria were recognised for their dedication to caring for children at a ceremony held by Cumbria County Council last week.

Cumbria County Council launches a new campaign today across Carlisle and Eden to try and find more foster carers who can offer homes to siblings groups and help brothers and sisters in care to stay together.