Published:
5:00 PM January 12, 2021
Debbie Douglas, National Fostering Ambassador at ‘Bollywood’ themed, Hackney Foster carers celebration evening, at Assembly Hall
- Credit: Adam Holt
Hackney’s Fostering Service needs more foster carers. Here, one of it’s best, Debbie Douglas, reveals how rewarding she has found the role.
Twenty-seven years ago, life changed for Debbie Douglas. Since then, she has gone on to foster more than 200 children for Hackney and earned herself the title of National Fostering Ambassador.
Change is something we all experience; it can be empowering, rewarding and it can reveal more about us than we ever knew. Thinking back to the start of her fostering career Hackney Foster Carer, Debbie, recalls “I was sitting in a restaurant and struck up a conversation with a young, beautiful lady on the next table; although she did seem stressed with a baby crying and a toddler wanting to go to the loo. Within no more than 20 minutes she explained that
A SUSSEX MP is paid £37,000 a year as an adviser to a children’s care provider. Conservative MP Tim Loughton is paid the figure “for an expected commitment of 12 hours a month” but refused to tell The Argus what it entailed. The payment has been revealed in the latest release of the House of Commons register of financial interests. According to the document, the East Worthing and Shoreham MP acts as an adviser to the board of the Outcomes First Group, formerly the National Fostering Agency. He is also chairman of the Quality and Safeguarding Board at the Outcomes First Group.