At Nexus Fostering Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are the principles of how we build our teams and develop our practice. Nexus Fostering strives to create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are valued and celebrated and everyone feels valued and heard. We want to represent the communities we serve and work to ensure no child or young person or carer team member is treated unfairly.
To honor and embrace the rich cultures, traditions, and histories within our fostering community, we actively celebrate a variety of events and awareness days throughout the year. From Black History Month and Pride to Diwali, Christmas, and Ramadan, we encourage learning and participation in cultural festivities that reflect the backgrounds of the children and families we support.
Whether it's sharing stories, providing training, or simply coming together to acknowledge important dates, we ensure that EDI remains at the heart of our work.
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.
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.
