WHAT IS FOSTERING?
Fostering is looking after other people's children in your own home as part of your family. Foster children come in all ages from birth to eighteen years and stay for various lengths of time ranging from overnight to the entire period of their childhood.
The future is in the hands of today’s children, meaning each of us has the responsibility to help them reach their full potential, especially those who require a little more extra nurturing. They say everyone has a different story to tell but for children who come to us, the history is sadly the same. Abandoned, abused, or simply born to parents who are unable to look after them, each child has reached the same crisis point in their young lives; they face growing up away from the love and support of their own family.
WHO NEEDS FOSTER HOMES?
Children and young people from different cultures, backgrounds and of different ages may need foster care at certain times in their lives.
There is also a need for homes for young people with physical disabilities, those seeking asylum in this country, or a young person who is a parent or about to become a parent.
Fostered children very often return to their own families when the situation which led to their coming in to foster care is resolved. Unfortunately, when this is not possible for particularly older children or groups of brothers and sisters, they normally spend their whole childhood in long term or permanent foster care. Sometimes they stay with their first foster family, and on other occasions families are specifically found to meet their needs.
FOSTER CARERS NEEDED
There is currently a shortage of foster carers nationally, and we are actively seeking to recruit carers. Please browse through our website, and contact us if you would like to join our family of foster carers.
Let’s work together to make a difference to the lives of many children and young people!