Fostering provides a safe, secure and nurturing family environment, either short or long-term, and allows children to keep in contact with their own families if they wish.
Why foster?
The difference fostering makes
How is fostering different to adoption?
Fostering is usually a temporary way of offering children a home until they can return to their own families. However, when a child cannot return home, decisions have to be made to find a permanent family for the child. Children and young people in foster care continue to be a legal part of their own family, even if they have only a limited amount of contact with them. Some children will be adopted, and this makes them legally part of a new family.
What will the children be like?
Children and young people are in care for a very wide variety of reasons and are cared for by foster carers that have the relevant skills and experiences to meet their needs. As a foster carer you and your fostering service will identify the type of foster care that you would specialise in and that suits you, your family and your lifestyle. More foster carers are needed to ensure that the right home is available when a child or young person needs it.
