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      <title>Fostering recruitment drive launched to support Stoke-on-Trent teenagers</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council has launched a new campaign to recruit specialist foster carers to support local teenagers.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Council unveils new promise of support for foster carers</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent Fostering has launched a new Foster Carer Promise – a clear and heartfelt commitment to supporting the city’s foster carers at every stage of their journey. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Care leavers to be considered in council policy as it becomes a ‘locally protected characteristic’</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council will give new lifelong rights and protections to young people who spend time in care.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Family Matters programme reaches 300 family milestone as number of children in care drops </title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Foster carers recognised at city-wide celebration</title>
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      <description>Foster carers, city leaders and Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s fostering team have come together to share experiences and celebrate their work to support vulnerable children and young people.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 12:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Higher fostering skills payments mean more children can be cared for locally in Stoke-on-Trent</title>
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      <description>Increased skills payments for foster carers have led to more fostering placements being identified to allow more care-experienced children to be cared for locally in Stoke-on-Trent.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Stoke-on-Trent City Council named Fostering Friendly - Employer of the Year </title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been named as Fostering Friendly - Employer of the Year at a prestigious ceremony in Birmingham.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Childhood’ – short film to raise awareness of the need for foster carers</title>
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      <description>In a ground-breaking national collaboration, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has worked with 55 Local Authorities across England to share ideas to create a short film to raise awareness of fostering. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Stoke-on-Trent becomes the UK’s first Fostering Friendly city</title>
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      <description>Leading national voices involved in foster carer have today (Monday) joined a number of major Stoke-on-Trent employers at an event to promote the recruitment of foster carers in Stoke-on-Trent.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Give a child a loving home for a night or two by becoming an emergency foster carer</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council is urging its residents to think about emergency fostering as over 900 children are currently in care across the city.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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