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Helping Foster Children Explore Their Faith Through Reading

Faith can offer comfort, connection, or confusion for children in care. In this blog, we explore how reading together can help foster children gently explore their beliefs, ask questions, and understand what faith means to them—all within a safe, open environment led by curiosity, care, and mutual respect.

Fostering as a Career: How to Thrive as a Professional Foster Carer

Fostering is more than just a calling—it can also be a rewarding, full-time career. In this blog, we explore what it means to be a professional foster carer, the benefits of making fostering your job, and practical tips to help you thrive in one of the UK’s most purposeful roles.

Our self-care guide for foster families

Self-care is important for everyone, no matter your lifestyle, age or background. This Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re sharing our top self-care tips for foster parents and their families.

Understanding the Fostering Process: From Enquiry to Matching

Whether you’ve decided to foster or are still on the fence, understanding the fostering application process will ensure you know what to expect when you apply. Join us as we explore the steps to becoming a foster parent, from your initial enquiry right through to welcoming your first child.

See our Extraordinary Foster Parents featured on BBC One’s ‘Extraordinary Portraits’ with Bill Bailey

We are extremely proud of Active Care Solutions’ foster parents Marva and Lionel Warmington, who were recently featured in Series 4 of BBC One’s ‘Extraordinary Portraits,’ hosted by comedian, musician and art lover Bill Bailey.

February 13 2025

Fostering Children from Different Faiths

As we move further into the New Year, let’s explore some ways in which you can help support your foster child’s spiritual needs.

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Marva and Lionel foster parents

Marva & Lionel’s 30-Year Fostering Journey

Read Marva and Lionel’s inspiring story of fostering over 200 children across 30 years. Learn how they supported teenagers and built lifelong connections.

Nealmah’s Fostering Story

At ACS we care for children from many different cultural and faith backgrounds. Read Nealmah’s fostering story as she discusses her success as a single foster parent caring for children from different backgrounds.

Hana Tedese’s Fostering Story

Hana has been fostering with ACS since 2021. Originally from Ethiopia, her own experience has given her the understanding and empathy to help change the lives of unaccompanied sanctuary seeking children. Read her story.

Foster Mum Shagufta on fostering with faith and taking her foster children to Mecca

Shagufta, alongside her husband Sabtain, have been providing children in need of loving homes in Lancashire with care, protection and spiritual support since 2014. Here she shares her fostering experience with ACS and talks about how as a couple they created the chance to perform Umrah last Ramadan with her foster children in Mecca.

foster parents Ansar and Sumera

Ansar and Sumera’s Fostering Story

Ansar and Sumera share how a chance encounter with a social worker led them to fostering, the joy of supporting children from diverse backgrounds, and how fostering has helped them build a loving, inclusive extended family.

Nasreen Amin

“My advice to anyone considering fostering is to go for it! It’s a very rewarding journey”

Fostering Stories

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Marva and Lionel foster parents

Marva & Lionel’s 30-Year Fostering Journey

Read Marva and Lionel’s inspiring story of fostering over 200 children across 30 years. Learn how they supported teenagers and built lifelong connections.

Nealmah’s Fostering Story

At ACS we care for children from many different cultural and faith backgrounds. Read Nealmah’s fostering story as she discusses her success as a single foster parent caring for children from different backgrounds.

Hana Tedese’s Fostering Story

Hana has been fostering with ACS since 2021. Originally from Ethiopia, her own experience has given her the understanding and empathy to help change the lives of unaccompanied sanctuary seeking children. Read her story.

Foster Mum Shagufta on fostering with faith and taking her foster children to Mecca

Shagufta, alongside her husband Sabtain, have been providing children in need of loving homes in Lancashire with care, protection and spiritual support since 2014. Here she shares her fostering experience with ACS and talks about how as a couple they created the chance to perform Umrah last Ramadan with her foster children in Mecca.

foster parents Ansar and Sumera

Ansar and Sumera’s Fostering Story

Ansar and Sumera share how a chance encounter with a social worker led them to fostering, the joy of supporting children from diverse backgrounds, and how fostering has helped them build a loving, inclusive extended family.

Nasreen Amin

“My advice to anyone considering fostering is to go for it! It’s a very rewarding journey”

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