Ray & Suzanne Show What Makes Great Foster Carers:
Ray and Suzanne Porter might not be regarded as typical foster carers. Both are in their 40's, professional people, living in a spacious detached house in rural Lancashire. She is a driving instructor, her firm taught Amir Khan to drive. He is a former soldier, once stationed in Northern Ireland, who runs a taxi business and an overseas property consultancy. They have two children of their own, Conor 13 and Chantelle 15, and foster a twelve year old, whose parents couldn't cope.
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North West Fostering Agency Looks To Recruit More Carers:
Foster carers play a huge role in the lives of many children who cannot live with their parents, says the Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF), by supporting some of the most disadvantaged young people in our society and enabling their successful transition into independent adult life. The green paper Every Child Matters makes recruitment and retention of foster carers a government priority, seeking to encourage more people to consider fostering, including those who may not realise they are eligible, such as single people, unmarried couples, lone parents and older people.
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Award-winning Carer, Susan, Shows Fostering Can Be Fun:
Known amongst her local church community as ‘the lady with all the children, who makes lovely cakes’ and presented with a car sticker proclaiming ‘World’s Greatest Mum’ by her family, Susan Dale (48) of Prestwich, Manchester, has now won the Tower FM 2007 Carer of the Year award, sponsored by Northwest fostering agency, Perpetual Fostering. She was nominated by her daughter, Victoria (27), for her tireless work in fostering around eighteen children and young people over the past seven years, whilst still managing to find time for her five grandchildren and daytime childminding duties, which she shares with son Craig (30).
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