Fostering a disabled child
The role of an independent fostering agency
What support is available for foster carers?
How to choose a foster care agency
Foster Care Fortnight: How to raise awareness about children in foster care
Can I choose who I foster?
How to foster
What are the benefits of fostering with an independent fostering agency?
What happens when a child is taken into care?
Fostering process: what happens on an initial home visit?
Can you foster if you have mental health issues?
Fostering with local authority vs independent agency
Interview: Life as a foster parent during the pandemic
A complete guide to becoming a foster carer
Becoming A Foster Carer
Benefits of becoming a foster parent
What is a Care Leaver?
What is a Foster Carer?
What is Foster Care?
Do I become a Foster Carer?
Fostering Regulations
How much do Foster Parents get paid?
How to Foster a Child
How long does it take to become a Foster Carer?
How to foster – everything you ever wanted to know
Facts about Foster Care
What are the Foster Care requirements?
Foster Care Handbook
Foster Carer Job Description
Changing IFA - Transferring to Capstone
Fostering Definition
Foster Care Statistics
What does Every Child Matters Mean for Foster Parents?
Fostering Stories
Fostering Children UK
Children needing Fostering
Reasons for a child to be taken into Care
Fostering as a Career
Looked after Children
A guide to fostering assessments
LGBTQ+ Fostering
Equality, Inclusion & Anti-discriminatory Practice in Foster Care
What can disqualify you from foster care?
Can you foster if you’re on benefits?
Top transferable job skills to become a foster carer
Fostering as a same sex couple
Fostering while renting
Is there an age limit for fostering in the UK?
Do foster carers get a pension?
How to foster a child: A step by step guide
Can I foster if...?
Mythbusting the top 10 Foster Care Myths
Can I foster if I am disabled?
LGBT Fostering Mythbusting
Can I foster if I have pets?
Can I Foster A Child?
Can I Foster and Work?
Can you Foster with a Criminal Record
Can Single People Foster?
LGBT Family and Foster Care
Fostering across Cultures
Muslim Fostering
Christian Foster Care
Sikh Fostering
Empty Nest Syndrome and Foster Care
Can I Foster?
Fostering Babies and Young Children
Fostering Babies - Myths
Focusing on Parent & Child Fostering
Fostering Siblings
Fostering Teenagers
Fostering Teenagers - Breaking down the Myths
Fostering Unaccompanied and Asylum Seeking Children
Mother and Baby Foster Placements
Private Fostering
Therapeutic Fostering - Multi-disciplinary Assessment Treatment & Therapy Service (MATTS)
Young Children Fostering Placements
Difference between short and long-term fostering
Reunification and Birth Parents: A Guide for Foster Carers
How to prepare a child for becoming a care leaver
Children who foster: impact of fostering on birth children
How to prepare your home for a foster child
How to help a lonely child: A Guide for Foster Carers
What are the National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services?
10 tips for foster children’s education
How to prepare your foster child for secondary school
Tips for coping when foster placements end
Tips for foster parents during Coronavirus
What happens if foster parents get divorced?
5 ways to manage Mother’s Day with foster children
Tips for managing foster children’s bedtime routines
How to handle foster child bullying
Fostering allowances and the gender pay gap
What discounts can foster carers get?
How to adopt from Foster Care
5 ways to manage Fathers Day for children in foster care
8 most common fostering challenges
Supporting foster children’s contact with birth families
A guide to independent fostering
Keeping Children Safe Online: A Guide For Foster Carers
Foster Care in TV and Film
Play-based learning strategies for foster carers
A Guide to the Staying Put Program
How to deal with empty nest syndrome
How to recognise signs of depression in foster children
Can you take a foster child on holiday?
Tips and advice on fostering with a disability
10 tips on connecting with your Foster Child
Fostering vs Adoption - What's the difference?
How Fostering can change a future
How to adopt from Foster Care
How to encourage children to read in Foster Care
How to prepare a Foster Child's bedroom
Reading and Storytelling with Babies and Young Children
Supporting Children's Learning
The 20 most recommended books Foster Carers and young people should read
Things you can do when your children leave home
The impact of early childhood traumas on adolescence and adulthood
Anxious Disorders in Foster Children
What is sexual abuse and sexual violence
Foster Child behaviour management strategies
Foster Parent Advice: What to expect in your first year of fostering
Capstone's twelve tips at Christmas
10 celebrities who grew up in Foster Care
Celebrating our Children and Young People
Could Millenials be the solution to the Foster Care crisis?
Do you work in Emergency Services?
Form F Assessor and Assessment Training
Foster Care Fortnight
Improving Children's Welfare - Celebrating Universal Children's Day
It's time to talk about Mental Health and Foster Care
New Year - New Career - Become a Foster Carer
Promoting the rights and wellbeing of persons with Disabilities
Refugee Week
Young people and Mental Health in a changing world
Young People Charities
Themes of fostering and foster care have been present in TV shows and movies for decades. Often touching on true events or highly dramatized on the big screen – all whilst shedding light on foster care. For some families, watching shows or movies based on foster care can help open a dialogue on fostering or help to see things from a new perspective. For some children, seeing a character that represents them or similar circumstances they may have been through can be quite cathartic, which can be used in a positive way to approach difficult subjects surrounding their experiences. From fictional characters on our screens, to celebrities who have grown up in care - representation is important. Whether you are looking for movies about fostering for yourself, your child or your family, our list has you covered.
This iconic British children’s TV series centres around an outspoken, impulsive, funny and imaginative pre-teen infamously known as ‘Tracy Beaker’ who lives in a children’s care home, dubbed ‘The Dumping Ground’ with other children just like her. Longing to be reunited with family, fostered or adopted, each episode focuses on different topics whilst also providing a comical aspect that the younger audience can resonate with.
With several adaptations throughout the years, the premise remains the same. The modern retake swaps the orphanage for an unhappy foster home in this highly dramatized tale about Annie, whose resilient and positive attitude remains amid incompetent social workers and greedy foster parents.
This superhero movie based on the DC comic is a fun and entertaining take on foster care – suitable for younger viewers. The main protagonist, Billy Batson, is a 14-year-old foster child who continuously runs away from foster homes in search of his birth mother but suddenly stumbles upon unexpected superpowers, making him the superhero, ‘Shazam’, who soon gains a powerful enemy that has taken his foster sibling’s hostage and must be stopped.
Based on a true heart-warming story, The Blind Side follows a gifted American football player, Michael, who is stuck in the foster care system. Eventually, Michael is adopted by a loving family who encourage him to improve his academics which will allow him to play on the school football team. The ending of the movie sees Michael drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft and played in the National Football League (NFL), depicting real-life events.
This movie is based on the adoption of siblings through foster care. The movie follows a child-less couple looking to expand their family through adoption, who come across three vivacious siblings looking for a caring and loving home whilst stuck in the foster care system. So begins their journey towards certification as foster-adoptive parents, whilst navigating through realistic events, themes and topics in this heart-warming and comical story of placement and adoption.
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