News & Events

Please see below articles for the latest news and events at Lorimer Foster Services.

Foster Care Fortnight 2008

Plans are now well under way for 2008's Foster Care Fortnight, which will run from Monday 12th to Sunday 25th May. This year Fostering Network are focussing their media activity on the need for foster carers for teenagers.

This year Lorimer Foster Services will be collaborating with local radio stations to raise awareness of the urgent need for foster carers for teenagers and the benefits of this. To complement our usual media advertising we will also be holding information stands in various shopping centres/retail parks where you can come along to have a chat with one of our Social Workers.

Once we have finalised the dates and venues we will up-date the website to let you all know where we will be and when; so remember to keep checking!

Family Wanted Event

Lorimer Foster Services teamed up with the BBC to promote theincreasing need for fostering and adoption families nationally.

The whole campaign comprised of a 5 part series of the 'Family Wanted' documentary, relevant story lines in Casualty, various TV appeals, radio broadcasts, celebrity endorsements, on-line activity, phone helpline, text service and local events.

We joined the BBC at two of their national events in September 2007; one at Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool and the other event was held at the Urbis Museum in Manchester. Although the events were not well attended by the public we found them very successful as we gained new foster carers from them!

Our stands were manned by both staff and foster carers, we found this to be a very valuable tool as our carers could speak to the public first hand and provide them with an insight as to what fostering teenagers is really like!