At Nexus Fostering, equity, diversity and inclusion sit at the heart of everything we do. Every child, foster carer and colleague deserves to feel valued, respected and supported to be themselves.
We know people’s lives and experiences are different. Equity means we do not assume one approach works for everyone. We work to understand what each person needs to feel safe, included and able to thrive.
For us, EDI means:
Treating people fairly and respectfully
Creating a culture where difference is welcomed
Supporting identity, culture, faith, gender and lived experience
Listening to feedback and acting on it
Challenging discrimination, stigma and prejudice whenever we see it
We build inclusion through training, honest conversations, and practical action. We listen to children, carers and staff, then use what we learn to improve how we work.
Our recent activity includes awareness events and shared resources, workshops that support carers to meet children’s cultural and identity needs, and service-wide learning that strengthens everyday practice.
The Nexus EDI Forum launched in August 2024. It brings together colleagues from across the agency, in a range of roles, to share knowledge and experience and to help improve practice.
The forum highlights issues that need attention and helps shape how we develop training, resources and ways of working, so the needs of our children, carers and staff are better understood and supported.
We recognise that care-experienced people can face discrimination, stigma and prejudice throughout their lives. This can include young people, foster carers and members of staff.
We are committed to recognising this experience, valuing care-experienced voices, and embedding this understanding into our practice and culture.
These are informal sessions for staff and carers, with a different topic each month.
They are designed to be a safe space to ask questions, learn from guest speakers (including people with lived experience), and share practical ideas that help in day-to-day fostering.
The sessions support:
Confidence through shared learning
Open discussion about topics that can feel hard to raise elsewhere
Stronger relationships across the fostering community
Better understanding of culture, identity, health and safeguarding themes
If you are considering fostering with Nexus Fostering, you will be supported to care for children from a wide range of backgrounds. You will receive training, guidance and access to open conversations that help you feel confident and informed.
If you are thinking about joining our staff team, you will be part of an organisation that values fairness, continuous learning and respectful challenge.
Our commitment is simple: to create a fostering community where everyone feels seen, heard and supported to thrive.
At Nexus Fostering, we believe that real stories have the power to inspire, educate, and connect us. Through our Insights & Foster Carer Stories, we share the experiences of our incredible foster carers, children, and team members, highlighting the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in fostering. Click the 'learn more' button to read these stories.
Nexus seek to recruit and support foster carers from different backgrounds, cultures and religions to support children maintain links with their cultural and heritage.
We work with foster carers with experience and expertise in caring for children with additional needs. The basis of fostering children with disabilities is the same as every other; to provide a safe, loving home for a young person. That young person might have special educational needs, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Global Development Delay, or various physical disabilities.
Nexus fostering seek to support carers who identify with any gender and in addition those who are able to support young people who are exploring their own gender identity.
Nexus seek to support children and young people who are neuro diverse either diagnosed or undiagnosed through our specialist support and advice via the supportive ADHD Zing Programme whose team is led by Xanthe our Head of Neuro Diversity.
We need diverse foster carers to reflect the diversity of young people coming into care. Young people require safe and loving homes . Sometimes there are young people who cannot be placed with a particular gender so same-sex foster carers can make a particularly good match.
When children and young people arrive in the UK they have often suffered difficult past experiences and are both frightened and confused. They need people and families who can offer them a safe home. Somewhere they can start to rebuild their future and make a new life for themselves.
Inspiring insights that celebrate Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within the Nexus Fostering community.
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