Focus on Fostering

About Focus on Fostering

Voices of Fostering brought to you by National Fostering Group. Everyone’s life takes a different path. As children and young people decisions can be made for us that shape our lives forever – whether for good or bad. As adults, we have the opportunity to make our own choices. And what we choose can have a positive impact on us and the world around us. Particularly if one of those choices is fostering. When you listen to the stories of children and young people whose lives have been touched by foster carers, you start to see the impact that fostering can have. When you decide to foster, it’s hard to imagine just how big a difference you could make. Not just to the young people you foster, but rippling out into countless other lives. Your choice to foster could transform the life chances of some of the most vulnerable people in society. In this podcast, you’ll hear young people who were fostered, birth children and foster carers talking openly and candidly about their experiences. You’ll get to understand why fostering can be simultaneously the most rewarding and the most challenging thing you’ll ever do and why embarking on this extraordinary journey changes people forever. If you’ve ever been curious about what it really means to foster, what difference it really makes, you’ll find the answers here.

Publisher

National Fostering Group

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2023

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

109 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Travis - Fostering Teenagers with Complex Needs

   Send us Fan Mail After 15 years in a soulless corporate job, Travis walked away to become a foster carer — and never looked back. Over the past 11 years, he and his wife have fostered 16 teenage boys with extreme complex needs, transforming lives through an approach built on trust, authenticity, and seeing the world through each child's eyes. In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Travis shares how a chance encounter with his brother-in-law's foster children sparked a calling he didn't know ...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Christine & Charlotte - Fostering, Family & Navigating Menopause

   Send us Fan Mail Two women. Two generations. Two completely different experiences of the menopause. In this episode, 79-year-old social worker and foster carer Christine shares her story of sailing through the menopause with little more than hot flushes and a sense of relief, while her daughter-in-law Charlotte recounts being hit by perimenopause "like a sledgehammer" at 46 - battling brain fog, hair loss, and debilitating symptoms that left her barely able to leave the house. Their candid ...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Lisa - Inside FosterTalk's Support for Carers

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Voices of Fostering, Helen is joined by Lisa from FosterTalk — a vital support service available to all National Fostering Group carers across England, Scotland, and Wales. Lisa breaks down the wide range of support on offer, from legal insurance and allegation support to 24-hour counseling, medical advice, tax assistance, and a discount portal with thousands of savings. Together, they tackle some of the most daunting aspects of fostering, exploring why the...

Who has been a guest on Focus on Fostering

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Joann
• Serwari
• Paul
• Lloyd
• Mary

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

73,720

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

57

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

60

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