Books, booklets & multimedia

Recipes for fostering: Sharing food and Stories building relationships

	Price: £9.95	BAAF, June 2009 ISBN 978-1-903699-67-6

Recipes for fostering explores the relationship between food and fostering through the stories of ten foster carers and their families. These carers share their favourite recipes as well as their experience of using shopping, cooking and eating together to build relationships with the children they look after.  In a series of powerful personal accounts the foster carers describe, in their own words, their motivation to foster and what it means to take on this role. Full colour photographs illustrate these carers’ homes and the food they like to prepare.

The ten featured foster care households represent a wide range of backgrounds and are involved in many different kinds of fostering. They are both local authority and independent fostering provider carers based in London, the West of England and the Midlands. What they have in common is the way in which they successfully use food as part of the process of building and continuing their relationships with children and young people.

Recipes for fostering is the product of a BAAF development project which was sponsored by Foster Care Associates.