What is fostering?
Fostering is all about opening your heart and home to a child or young person who needs a safe, supportive and temporary place to live. Foster carers play a vital role in helping children and young people feel supported. Whether it’s for a few days, a few months or sometimes longer.
Children and young people who are fostered still have a family of their own but are currently unable to live with their birth parent or parents. This can be for several reasons ranging from bereavement, illness and depression to drug abuse, domestic violence or neglect.
Where a family has problems, our children’s services are committed to working with the parent or parents to make the home a safe place for that child.
Fostering is the temporary placement of a child in the home of a foster carer. The goal is often to reunite the child with their birth family when it’s safe and appropriate to do so. There are many different types of fostering to suit the needs of the child or young person.
Adoption is the permanent placement of a child in the care of adoptive parents who take full legal responsibility for the child. Adoption is a lifelong commitment, whereas fostering can be short-term, long-term or somewhere in between.
Both adoption and fostering are incredibly worthwhile but are suited to different people and circumstances.
If you’ve got room in your home and heart for a local child, fostering could be the most rewarding thing you ever do. We welcome carers from all walks of life and provide full training and ongoing financial support to help you on your journey.
Get in touch with our friendly team today, we’d love to hear from you.
Call 01202 123 345 or fill in our short enquiry form.