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It is about thinking about which parts of your family’s behaviour involves risk and working out what you can all do so that safer care becomes part of everyday life. This will have already been covered on the training course.\nIt will also help you to know how to deal with situations that might seem ok in your own family but are not safe in a foster family. It is important that everybody that is in the house is aware of the plan and is signed up to it. Regular visitors to the home need to know about the Safer Caring Plan.\nThe whole family should be involved in agreeing your plan and in reviewing it each year (or when circumstances change). Your Supervising Social Worker can support you with this. When you have completed your Safer Caring Plan you should discuss it with the child’s social worker and give a copy to the fostering service. Sometimes you may need to review your Safer Caring Plan because something new happens like a new placement.\nThe aim is for all those involved to understand what might happen and to avoid the child feeling worried or anxious.\nWhen you go on holiday you will need to think about your Safer Caring Plan.\nSafer Caring Plans and Gender Roles\nThe latest guidance from the Fostering Network l states that: “Contradictory and unhelpful attitudes to men undertaking child care can crop up in guidance about male and female foster carer’s roles. Whatever the intention, the consequence of such guidance is to reinforce anxieties that many male foster carers have about undertaking ordinary parenting tests with fostered children and young people, and inhibit them from taking an active caring role. In recent decades, there has been a shift in the extent to which men are involved in the care of children. This is an important, albeit slow, sign of some progress. The idea that men can be nurturing and sensitive to children’s emotions, and able to meet their care needs is liberating for men, for women and for the children they care for”, (Slade.J. (2012), Safer Caring: A New Approach, Fostering Network). That said, some children in care may not previously have had male figures in their lives or may have had negative relationships with men. The experience of having a positive male role model can help improve the chance of being able to have good relationships with men in future. “The role modelling by male (foster) family members of an appropriate loving relationship based on clear boundaries and a love that is unconditional (not based on what the child can provide to the adult or on a relationship tainted by grooming and abuse), provides an optimal environment where a child can heal the wounds of past trauma”. (Bridget Griffin, Serious Case Review, Croydon).\nA good start is for both carers to ensure that th","cbCaidVSs2Hnq5Zy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidVSs2Hnq5Zy","docx",82371,13,"English","# Introduction\n## Safer Caring Plans and Gender Roles\n## Working out your Safer Caring Plan\n## Issues to take into consideration\n## The Names you use\n## Physical Contact and Showing Affection","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of a Safer Caring Plan for a foster family?\",\"answer\":\"It helps the family identify where behaviour may create risk and agree practical actions so safer care becomes part of everyday life, reducing children’s anxiety and worry.\"},{\"question\":\"Who should be involved in developing and maintaining the plan?\",\"answer\":\"The whole family should be involved in agreeing the plan and reviewing it each year (or when circumstances change). 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