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# New approach providing benefits for young people in care across Staffordshire
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/new-approach-providing-benefits-for-young-people-in-care-across-staffordshire/
- Published: 2023-04-27T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-25T09:02:57.000Z
- Description: Children and young people in care across the region are benefiting from a new approach to fostering.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:07, News

Children and young people in care across the region are benefiting from a new approach to fostering.

Together4Children is a partnership bringing together four local authority fostering services – including Staffordshire County Council – to deliver the Mockingbird project.

The programme provides extra support to foster carers and children alike, by creating a network of households to replicate the structure of an extended family. 

A hub carer sits at the centre of these networks to offer friendship, support and guidance, as well as organising celebration events and fun outings. 

Foster carer Shanice Evason said:

> “Mockingbird has been an incredible source of support for our child, my husband and me. It has given us an additional opportunity to make friends with other foster carers.   
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> “We mutually support one another as though we are one big family. The hub carer, who is like our family’s grandparent figure, has been amazing.”   
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> Shanice Evason

Staffordshire hub carer, Jacquie Forrester, said:

> “I am proud to be able to offer support to carers and their families when needed, even if it’s only a short telephone conversation. I am happy in the knowledge that they know I am there for them to support in any way I can.   
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> “It’s testament to us all that in such a short time, we have built solid relationships.”  
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> Jacquie Forrester

Anyone interested in finding out more about the programme or fostering for their local authority can find out more at [www.together4children.co.uk/mockingbird](http://www.together4children.co.uk/mockingbird?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).