Safeguarding children from the dangers of online
In recent times, the internet is something that has taken over everyone’s lives and the possibilities of the things you can do are great like communication, socialising, easy access to […]
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Head of Fostering Recruitment & Social Media
Annie Shafi
My name is Annie Shafi and I am the Head of Recruitment for Muslim Foster Network. As the Head of Recruitment, I am responsible for leading the recruiting department in all its functions, inclusive of recruiting potential foster carers. I have been with the organisation since 2016 and prior to that I have been in senior managerial roles which have given me transferable skills that I use in my day to day operations within the business. All prospective foster carers have to be approved by me and are vetted thoroughly. This is all done prior to me passing their referrals on to the Agencies as well as Local Authorities. My team and I provide the potential foster carers with the relevant information, advice, training, support and encouragement they need to successfully apply to be a foster carer. In addition, I have had 4 years of experience fostering children and young people. I am also part of the advisory group for the business and. I also lead on all our social media campaigns and posts for all our products across the various different brands of our organisation and I am an active member of the Advisory Group. I am always equipped to offer support to new foster carers when needed and have trained all new starters to the business on Sales Force, our in-house cloud- based CRM system. This is just an overview of some of the duties I do as Head of Recruitment, but it is not an exhaustive list and I continue to contribute to sectors of the business when needed in addition to my role heading up the recruitment.
Annie Shafi 's Insights
Fostering Concerns
A comprehensive report has been compiled based on a survey from over 4000 foster carers, it paints a picture of fostering in their words and raises issues and voices that have […]
Healthy Eating and fostering
We were invited to a community awareness day in Bradford yesterday to help raise awareness about the increase of Muslim children going into care and the need for more Muslim […]
The Compassionate Man
Today’s blog looks at a truly inspirational work of an upstanding individual has been fostering terminally ill children for the last 20 years. Today we take a look at Muhammad […]
9 strategic ways to manage a foster childs behaviour
One of the biggest challenges you will come across in fostering is managing a child’s behavior. The foster child coming from a troubled environment can express disruptive behaviors when they’re […]
What should you know about fostering
Becoming a foster carer can be one of the biggest decisions you will ever make. It has the ability to totally transform a vulnerable child’s life. There are a lot […]
Negative Media on fostering
Fostering came into the limelight again for negative reasons. This time it was based on the poet Lemn Sissay experience as a foster child. There were some good solid points […]
Are Foster carers more than a parent?
Being a foster carer is more than a parent although they fulfill a significant parenting role. Fostering is way more complexed than parenting, it is a professional role although it […]
Why should we Foster?
There are various reasons as to why we should foster. You can find reasoning for it from a moral or a Religious Perspective. Morally we all think we are good […]
Doubts about ability to foster?
Regardless of what we do, we will always have a silent voice in our heads. When it comes to making any significant decisions we will always have negative thoughts and […]