Fostering is looking after a child or young person in your home and caring for them while their own parents are unable to do so.
There are 50,000 children in foster care on any given day in the UK.
Over 5,000 foster carers desperately need to be recruited this year to provide foster children with safe and caring homes while they are unable to live with their own families.
Discover the basics in What is fostering? Or take the next step and contact your local fostering service.
Our faces of foster care tell you what fostering is really like.
Would you like further advice about becoming a foster carer? Call Fosterline on 0800 040 7675 or email fosterline@fostering.net
Foster Care Fortnight 2008 runs from 12-25 May. Find out more.
Read first hand testimonials
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The how and why of
becoming a foster carer