LOVE TO GIVE
As we celebrate our amazing mums this Mother’s Day, don’t forget there’s more than one type of mum out there.
The number of children needing foster care in the UK has risen by 36% in the last year alone. With more children and young people in need of a loving and safe home, fostering offers flexible working, a competitive fostering allowance and the comfort of working from home because of the constant demand for carers.
People from across England, from all backgrounds and communities, can be considered to become foster carers. We spoke to three full-time foster mums about their journeys.
IN IT TOGETHER
Josie Taylor, 35, from Swindon, jokes she and husband James, 37, are better parents now than they were to their own two kids!
Sitting at my desk at work, I sighed.
I’d worked as a senior advisor at a customer service contact centre for six years, but I was getting fed up of the nine to five.
I started to think about a career change, and
