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Fostering is providing a safe, stable, and caring family environment for children and young people aged 0 to 18 who, for various reasons, cannot live with their birth parents. This care can be temporary, such as respite or it may be longer-term, depending on individual circumstances.
What does a foster carer do?
Being a foster carer involves providing safe and nurturing home, with emotional support, guidance, and stability to help children thrive and reach their full potential.
Foster carers look after children in their home and take care of their needs. Depending on the children they care for, this will include all the usual daily things such as
Foster carers are an essential part of the professional network around the child. They work alongside social workers, teachers, health care services, birth families and others to gain the best possible outcomes for children in their care.
Who can foster?
All applicants will be supported through the process, receive training and information.
Why do children need support?
Social workers try extremely hard to keep families together. When this is not possible, for reasons which may include: family problems, a parent’s ill health or neglect, the child comes into the care of a local authority. These children may be babies, toddlers, teenagers, or sibling groups.
Children in foster carer may have additional needs because of their life experiences. Whatever the individual circumstances, these children have often lived through trauma and will be experiencing grief and often mixed emotions about not living with their parents. Foster carers need to be sensitive, empathetic, and resilient in their approach to supporting the child they care for.
Fostering is not an easy career choice, there will be good days and bad days for every family. However, foster carers know that every day they are making a difference in a child’s life.