Providing excellent support to and supervision of our carers

24 hour support

Comprehensive training programme

Good renumeration and fostering allowance

Regular support group with other foster carers

A ‘buddying’ system where you wilbe linked up with a more experienced foster carer

Fun and varied social activites

Respite holiday provision

A high quality and timely assessment of your suitability to become a foster carer.

And… a big welcome when you become a member of our hardworking, committed team who also enjoy having fun and making a difference!!!

These may include:

Parental illness

Parental substance abuse

Have been abused and their family home is no longer a safe place.

Children come to this country without anyone to look after them.

Children or young people who because of the emotional difficulties / traumas they have experienced, behave and ‘act out’ their problems in a way that is difficult to manage.

Children with disabilities (physical and/or learning) which can be either moderate or profound.

Unsupported teenage mothers.

Have time to offer a child or young person the care, support, guidance and love they need?

Can work as part of a professional care team to ensure the best outcomes of the child

Can support and encourage positive contact with birth families.

Can provide a safe family environment where a chil can feel free from harm.

Can provide a friendly, comfortable home which has a spare room for the child.

Are a home-owner or live in a rented accomodation as long it’s permanent

Are married, single, living with parent or divorced

Are from a cultural or ethnic background.

Have the qualities that any child would enjoy and need in an adult, i.e. warmth, patience, a sense of humour, enthusiasm, understanding, lots of energy, a sense of respoonsibility and ability to set fair boundaries and….a BIG HEART!!!

Fostering is caring for a child or children who need to be ‘looked after’ by another family because they are not able to stay with their own family for a specific period of time. The length of time children come into foster care variesdepending on their needs, what is considered to be ‘in their best interest’ and their own birth family circumstances.

For this reason there are different types of fostering:

Short-term fostering

For a child to go back home to their family when the difficulties causing them to leave are resolved.

For a child/ren to move on to a new long-term family for the rest of their childhood or permanent adoptive family when a decision is made that they can no longer live with their own birth family.

Long-term fostering
When the plan is for a child to live with a foster family for the rest of their childhood.

Mother and Baby fostering
This is a foster home that offers a teenage mother the opportunity to learn good and safe parenting skills in order to give her baby the best possible start in life.