Fostering – Hackney Citizen

‘Hugely influential’: Local adoption agency founder awarded MBE in Jubilee honours

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 2 June 2022 at 13:40

Jay Vaughan’s Family Futures has worked with more than a thousand children

Foster carer who has helped over 200 Hackney children talks of pride in her ‘extended family’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 21 May 2018 at 10:54

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“My greatest achievement is seeing how the children I looked after have moved on, having turned their lives around”

Leader – Foster care sex child abuse scandal demands policy review

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 5 March 2016 at 09:11

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Rape and sexual assault of five girls by foster carer could have been prevented

NSPCC criticises police over Hackney foster care child sex abuse

By Adam Barnett | Saturday 5 March 2016 at 07:35

Children’s charity weighs in as pressure mounts for police review

Foster care child sex abuse could happen again, warns Hackney safeguarding chief

By Adam Barnett | Tuesday 1 March 2016 at 13:48

Risk: Five schoolgirls were abused in foster care

‘Huge risk’ of further sexual abuse, as police body rules out policy review

Hackney-born musician Solomon O.B triumphs at National Poetry Slam

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 14 January 2016 at 14:26

Winning poem recounted 24-year-old’s experience growing up in foster care