Foster Care Uncovered
Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen
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The Truth from the Frontline.
No filter, no spin, no hiding. The stories behind the headlines, the truths behind the system - exposing, confronting, and moving foster care forward.
Hosted by Sarah Anderson, CEO of FosterWiki & Co-founder of the NFCQ and Louise Allen, Bestselling Author & Founder of Spark Sisterhood.
All views shared in this podcast reflect the personal opinions of the hosts alone. They are not intended as factual assertions about any person or organisation, nor do they represent the views of any employer or professional body.
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S1E23 When Systems Shape Minds: The Psychology Undermining Confidence and Care
This week, Sarah and Louise open with a candid, slightly irreverent look at what’s been making waves in the sector, the stories behind the headlines, the language being used, and the questions few…
S1E22 Them and Us: Foster Care's Unspoken Civil War
This week, Sarah and Louise take on one of foster care's biggest elephants in the room: "Them and Us".For years, carers have spoken about a growing divide between those providing care and those…
S1E21 Culture Wars: Power, Silence and Moral Decline
This week on Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise tackle the growing culture crisis inside fostering.From Josh MacAlister’s latest social media backlash and the controversy around foster carer pay…
S1E20 Foster Care Fortnight: Illusion, Delusion and Confusion
In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Louise and Sarah return with their now-notorious mix of news, commentary and uncomfortable honesty as they take on the sector’s latest headlines,…
S1E19 In Conversation with Rebekah Pierre: Recruitment ads, marginalisation and the illegal Homes Scandal
This week, Sarah and Louise are joined by Rebekah Pierre, Deputy Director of Article 39, care-experienced author, social worker, and one of the most important voices shaping the national conversation…
S1E18 Who Cares About Foster Carers?
In this episode, Sarah and Louise return after half term with a frank conversation about what’s really happening in fostering today.They start with powerful listener feedback that reflects a growing…
S1E17 The Truth Gets Harder: Foster Carer’s Mental Health Part 2
This week, Sarah and Louise continue the conversation on foster carers' mental health, and go even deeper into what’s really happening behind the scenes. In Part 2, they explore the systemic…
S1E16 Hidden in Plain Sight: Foster Carer’s Mental Health
In this episode, Sarah and Louise start up a crucial conversation - the mental health of foster carers.Behind the role is constant emotional labour, exposure to trauma, and the pressure to keep…
S1E15 Support or Surveillance? The System Failing Those Who Care
In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise pull back the curtain on what foster carers really experience, and why the system’s promises of support often fall short. From the quietly…
S1E14 Allegations, Fear, and Broken Systems: The Dark Side of Fostering
This week, Sarah and Louise tackle one of the most hidden crises in fostering, allegations against foster carers.For decades, foster carers have quietly shared stories of false or retaliatory…
S1E13 Don’t Talk About the Money: Power, Pay, Politics and Chaos
This week, Sarah and Louise take an unflinching, slightly bemused, slightly furious wander through the week’s news before getting into the topic everyone tiptoes around in fostering: money.From Josh…
S1E12 From Policy Spin to Cupcake Propaganda: Just Another Week in Fostering
This week, Sarah and Louise go full investigative mode on a brutal few days for foster carers, and the uncomfortable truths that slipped out of power.After the now viral “you don’t work / it’s not a…
S1E11 Political Theatre, Gaslighting and Permanent Damage
This week, Sarah and Louise don’t soften a single edge.They dismantle the government’s latest fostering “reforms” piece by piece, not the press release version, but the reality behind it. The…
S1E10 Allegations: The Hidden Truth
This week, Sarah and Louise kick off a hard-hitting series on allegations against foster carers. We unpack why these claims aren’t just a carer problem. They’re a system-wide crisis affecting…
S1E9 Retention, Retention, Retention – When Will They Ever Learn
This week, Sarah and Louise pull no punches. They’re calling out the foster care sector’s obsession with shiny recruitment schemes while ignoring the real fulcrum of the system: retention. From…
S1E8 Illegal, Unsafe, Unacceptable: A Care System in Freefall, Still Not Listening
In this episode of Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise delve into the shocking new report from the Children’s Commissioner, which reveals the harsh reality many children in foster care face…
S1E7 The Good, the Bad, and the Absurd in 2025 and What 2026 Needs
Sarah and Louise take an unapologetically unfiltered look at foster care in 2025, the achievements, the bloopers, the ‘persons’ of the year, what needed to stop, what made them laugh, the moments…
S1E6 All I Want for Christmas Is… Actual Support!
A Foster Care Uncovered Christmas SpecialFestive hats on, rose-tinted myths off.In this Christmas special, we take a tongue-in-cheek but honest look at support during the festive period. Alongside…
S1E5 When Policy Meets the Street: A Social Worker Lifts the Lid
In this episode, Sarah and Louise sit down with social worker Nana Abbey-Hagen, a practitioner who moves fluently between frontline reality, leadership conversations, and the community spaces where…
S1E4 The Form F, one of fostering’s most entrenched processes and why it desperately needs a rethink.
In this episode, Sarah and Louise roll right back to the start and take a deep dive into the Form F assessment, what it was meant to be, why it’s drifting so far from purpose, and how it’s shaping…
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Foster Care Uncovered has published 23 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Kids & Family.
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