Foster Care Uncovered
Episodes
Who Cares About Foster Carers?
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Truth Gets Harder: Foster Carer’s Mental Health Part 2
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sarah and Louise continue the conversation on foster carers' mental health, and go even deeper into what’s really happening behind the sc...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Foster Carer’s Mental Health
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sarah and Louise start up a crucial conversation - the mental health of foster carers.Behind the role is constant emotional labour, e...
Support or Surveillance? The System Failing Those Who Care
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 promi...
Allegations, Fear, and Broken Systems: The Dark Side of Fostering
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sarah and Louise tackle one of the most hidden crises in fostering, allegations against foster carers.For decades, foster carers have quiet...
Don’t Talk About the Money: Power, Pay, Politics and Chaos
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sarah and Louise take an unflinching, slightly bemused, slightly furious wander through the week’s news before getting into the topic eve...
From Policy Spin to Cupcake Propaganda: Just Another Week in Fostering
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Political Theatre, Gaslighting and Permanent Damage
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sarah and Louise don’t soften a single edge.They dismantle the government’s latest fostering “reforms” piece by piece, not the pres...
Allegations: The Hidden Truth
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 prob...
Retention, Retention, Retention – When Will They Ever Learn
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sarah and Louise pull no punches. They’re calling out the foster care sector’s obsession with shiny recruitment schemes while ignoring ...
Illegal, Unsafe, Unacceptable: The State of Foster Care Today
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise delve into the shocking new report from the Children’s Commissioner, which reveals the ha...
The Good, the Bad, and the Absurd in 2025 and What 2026 Needs
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah and Louise take an unapologetically unfiltered look at foster care in 2025, the achievements, the bloopers, the ‘persons’ of the year, what ...
All I Want for Christmas Is… Actual Support!
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Foster Care Uncovered Christmas SpecialFestive hats on, rose-tinted myths off.In this Christmas special, we take a tongue-in-cheek but honest look a...
When Policy Meets the Street: A Social Worker Lifts the Lid
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sarah and Louise sit down with social worker Nana Abbey-Hagen, a practitioner who moves fluently between frontline reality, leadershi...
The Form F, one of fostering’s most entrenched processes and why it desperately needs a rethink.
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sarah and Louise roll right back to the start and take a deep dive into the Form F assessment, what it was meant to be, why it’s dr...
Indefensible unforgivable
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indefensible unforgivable. Sarah & Louise take apart today’s Government fostering stats - exposing the spin behind the headlines and the failing...
Foster Care Uncovered Episode 2
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second episode of Foster Care Uncovered.Today, Louise Allen & Sarah Anderson are joined by Joe Hanley joins them today to discuss t...
Foster Care Uncovered
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by Louise Allen & Sarah AndersonThis podcast offers an unfiltered and straightforward exploration of the stories and headlines surrounding ...