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Sarah and Louise take their irreverent look and roll back the curtains on another week in fostering. They start with leadership, language, and the familiar gap between what is announced and what is actually felt in foste

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The Truth from the Frontline. No filter, no spin, no hiding. The stories behind the headlines, the truths behind the system - exposing, confronting, and moving foster care forward. Hosted by Sarah Anderson, CEO of FosterWiki & Co-founder of the NFCQ and Louise Allen, Bestselling Author & Founder of Spark Sisterhood. All views shared in this podcast reflect the personal opinions of the hosts alone. They are not intended as factual assertions about any person or organisation, nor do they represent the views of any employer or professional body.
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Sarah and Louise take their irreverent look and roll back the curtains on another week in fostering. They start with leadership, language, and the familiar gap between what is announced and what is actually felt in foste

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This week on Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise tackle the growing culture crisis inside fostering. From Josh MacAlister’s latest social media backlash and the controversy around foster carer pay messaging, to the G

In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Louise and Sarah return with their now-notorious mix of news, commentary and uncomfortable honesty as they take on the sector’s latest headlines, contradictions and carefully pol

This week, Sarah and Louise are joined by Rebekah Pierre, Deputy Director of Article 39, care-experienced author, social worker, and one of the most important voices shaping the national conversation on children’s social

In this episode, Sarah and Louise return after half term with a frank conversation about what’s really happening in fostering today. They start with powerful listener feedback that reflects a growing sense of recognition

This week, Sarah and Louise continue the conversation on foster carers' mental health, and go even deeper into what’s really happening behind the scenes. In Part 2, they explore the systemic pressures driving stress, anx

In this episode, Sarah and Louise start up a crucial conversation - the mental health of foster carers. Behind the role is constant emotional labour, exposure to trauma, and the pressure to keep going, even when it’s har

In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise pull back the curtain on what foster carers really experience, and why the system’s promises of support often fall short. From the quietly creeping national fost

This week, Sarah and Louise tackle one of the most hidden crises in fostering, allegations against foster carers. For decades, foster carers have quietly shared stories of false or retaliatory allegations, stories that w

This week, Sarah and Louise take an unflinching, slightly bemused, slightly furious wander through the week’s news before getting into the topic everyone tiptoes around in fostering: money. From Josh MacAlister’s so-call

This week, Sarah and Louise go full investigative mode on a brutal few days for foster carers, and the uncomfortable truths that slipped out of power. After the now viral “you don’t work / it’s not a job” moment exposed

This week, Sarah and Louise don’t soften a single edge. They dismantle the government’s latest fostering “reforms” piece by piece, not the press release version, but the reality behind it. The language. The choreography.

This week, Sarah and Louise kick off a hard-hitting series on allegations against foster carers. We unpack why these claims aren’t just a carer problem. They’re a system-wide crisis affecting recruitment, retention, and

This week, Sarah and Louise pull no punches. They’re calling out the foster care sector’s obsession with shiny recruitment schemes while ignoring the real fulcrum of the system: retention. From exposing local authorities

In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise delve into the shocking new report from the Children’s Commissioner, which reveals the harsh reality many children in foster care face today. From illegal and un

Sarah and Louise take an unapologetically unfiltered look at foster care in 2025, the achievements, the bloopers, the ‘persons’ of the year, what needed to stop, what made them laugh, the moments that kept them going, an

A Foster Care Uncovered Christmas Special Festive hats on, rose-tinted myths off. In this Christmas special, we take a tongue-in-cheek but honest look at support during the festive period. Alongside plenty of foster care
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