Category — Material relating to Fostering

This is the second paper by Nancy Hazel from the booklet “Free to be Myself: the development of teenage fostering” edited by Nancy Hazel and Andrew Fenyo.

Nancy Hazel was a pioneering figure in the development of professional fostering in the 1970s and 80s in the UK. She wrote three papers in a booklet, “Free to be Myself: the development of teenage fostering” edited by Nancy Hazel and Andrew Fenyo (1993). This entry contains the first of the three.

Ron Dare was a Consultant Educational Psychologist to the Cotswold Community in the 1970s and 1980s and he was a member of the Community’s Managing Body, a sub-committee of Wiltshire County Council’s Social Services Committee. After retiring as a Senior Educational Psychologist for Wiltshire’s Education Department, in addition to his consultancy work at the Cotswold Community, he became involved in training foster carers and this article arose from that work.