"Our aim is to get young people in our care to be confident and comfortable with who they are. It's an exciting, challenging, rewarding, difficult job - but then what job isn't if you want to do it well?"

Image of Colin and CarolColin and Carol got into fostering through helping young people in their community. Colin currently works for Connexions and together they foster teenagers:

"The first foster child that we took in said afterwards that when his life was out of control somebody took control of it. Obviously with the intent to give it back to him when he could manage it. I think it was important that somebody was bigger than he was at that time."

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