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On the 5th November 2016 Five Rivers Fostering held a cultural awareness day in our Kilkenny House. This was attended by foster carers, birth children, foster children, staff and external organisations such as the Meath Traveller Group. The day was organised to recognise and celebrate the different cultures amongst our foster carers and our foster children. There was a great turn out on the day with various foster carers from various cultures getting involved in presentations and cooking samplers of their traditional dishes.

HIQA's Children's Team has published an overview of the findings of 2012 children’s inspection activity for foster care and children’s residential services.

Five Rivers Ireland training department will be running courses in July for our carers on "protecting children and protecting ourselves", "the effect of trauma on the child and carer", and "sexual health & relationships".

Training will take place in Dublin, Cork, Athlone and Carlow.

Contact us for more details.

Welcome to Five Rivers Ireland’s new website!  We hope you find it informative and that it answers any questions you may have about fostering with us.  Please contact us at our Dublin or Cork offices if you want to discuss further.  We look forward to your enquiry.

Foster carer Kathleen O’Farrell, Baldoyle was recently crowned ‘Woman’s Way & Lidl Dublin Mum of the Year’. She was nominated by her daughter Kathleen junior. Kathleen and her husband have been fostering and working with the Tulsa Child and Family Agency
social work department in North Dublin for over 25 years.

Education of Children in Care in Ireland: An Exploratory Study, commissioned by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office, presents the results of a recent study on education for children in care in Ireland. The overarching aim of this study is to identify how the Irish education system can best support attendance, participation and attainment in education by children in care.