Innovation
We build the tools the fostering sector has been missing: intelligent technology, culturally competent frameworks and evidence-based solutions, all shaped with the carers, children and professionals who use them.
How we innovate
Our innovation ecosystem
Each tool tackles a gap we kept seeing in practice. Used together, they support the child, strengthen the carer and change the system around them.
Our digital community app connecting carers, professionals and communities with resources, events, support and each other, in real time. Free to download on iPhone and Android.
See the app ↓Download on the App Store →Get it on Google Play →A digital assessment and decision-making framework across eight domains of identity, culture and belonging. RAG-rated placement matching helps every child’s needs be sought, recorded and tracked.
Visit the WHOLE™ site →The UK’s only sector-specific cultural competence accreditation for fostering organisations. Built on fifteen principles and awarded at Gold, Silver or Bronze.
About the accreditation →A quick-reference pack of 56 cards building cultural awareness, inclusion and confidence in everyday care.
Get the cards →We fill the gaps in UK fostering data, including the State of Black Fostering report built from Freedom of Information requests to councils.
Our research →State of Black Fostering →Our magazine sharing carer stories, sector news and practice insight, keeping lived experience at the centre of the conversation.
Read the magazine →BFCA Connect app
The safe, supportive space for foster carers, kinship carers, professionals and students to connect, learn and grow together.
Built with our community
Every tool is shaped with lived experience, co-designed with our community and delivered for real impact.
Our Theory of Change
We work across the child, the carer and the whole system at the same time, because change at one level won’t last without the others.
Identity affirmed, culture and heritage actively held in placement, and greater placement stability.
Carers with the cultural confidence and skills to meet a child’s identity needs, and the support to continue fostering.
Services achieving the Cultural Compass Mark™, policy shaped by evidence, and commissioning that drives change.
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Work with us
Bring our tools into your service, partner on a pilot, or download BFCA Connect today.