About fostering
Fostering is a way of caring for other people's children and young people away from their family home.
Fostering can be challenging and demanding but it's also enjoyable and extremely rewarding. Your role as a foster carer is to work alongside us in supporting the child to achieve their full potential in a safe, secure and stable home - this can be on a respite, short-term or long-term basis.
Why children are taken into care
All children are different so the reasons why they need to be with foster carers are all very different.
Here are some examples:
- Their parent is ill and they need somewhere to go at the weekend when their parent is in hospital
- They need a short-term placement as their family is in difficulty
- They need a permanent placement, supporting them on to independence
'This is fostering' - a poem about fostering
Our lovely staff in our fostering team have written and performed their own poem about what fostering is. "It's ordinary people doing extraordinary things".