As part of LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2023, which returns from 6 to 11 March, Cumbria County Council’s fostering service is holding a series of face to face and online events next week.

Cumbria County Council’s fostering service has launched a recruitment drive this week to find more Shared Carers, who can care for children with a disability on a regular basis, in order to give their families some respite.

Cumbria County Council fostering service announced today (24 January) that all of its foster carers and Homestays providers will receive a grant of £500 this month to help with the rising cost of living.

In its latest campaign Cumbria County Council’s fostering service is urgently appealing for more people to transform a child’s life by sharing their own in 2023.

In a ground-breaking national collaboration, Cumbria County Council has joined forces with 55 other Local Authorities across England to jointly fund the creation of a short film to raise awareness of fostering.

Cumbria County Council’s fostering service is urging those interested in becoming a foster carer to attend an information event at St Michael’s Church Parish Rooms in Workington next Saturday (16 July).

Ahead of National Refugee Week (June 20 to 26) Cumbria County Council’s Fostering Service is looking for foster carers for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) as part of the National Transfer Scheme.

Cumbria County Council’s fostering service is asking members of the LGBT community to consider whether they could change the life of vulnerable children during LGBT+ Adoption and Fostering Week, which returns next week.