• Skip to content
Go to Rochdale Borough Council home page Print Fallback Logo
  • Sign in
  • About the council
  • Benefits & money
  • Bins & recycling
  • Births, deaths & marriages
  • Business & licensing
  • Children's services
  • Council Tax
  • Councillors & elections
  • Crime & antisocial activity
  • Emergencies
  • Environment & pests
  • Housing
  • Jobs
  • Libraries & customer service centres
  • News & events
  • Parking, roads & transport
  • Planning, building & conservation
  • Schools
  • Social care & health
  • Sports & leisure
  • Cost of living
  • Coronavirus
  • Apply, report & pay
  • Check your bin collection day
  • Pay Council Tax
  • Search for a planning application
  • Find a job
  • Contact us

Can't find what you're looking for?
See A-Z of services

  1. Home
  2. Children's services
  3. Fostering
  4. What is fostering?

What is fostering?

Contents

  1. About fostering
  2. This is fostering – poem (you are here)
  3. Why you should foster for your local council
  4. What our foster carers say
  5. Difference between fostering and adoption

This is fostering – poem

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".

  • Watch the 'This is fostering' poem video on YouTube (00:01:51)
  • Next page : Why you should foster for your local council
  • Previous page : About fostering

Fostering related content

  • Fostering with Rochdale Borough Council
  • Make a fostering enquiry
  • Fostering with Pride
  • Real-life foster care stories
  • Diary of foster carers Anthony and Declan

Contact to make a fostering enquiry

Email: enquire@FosterForGM.com

Telephone: Click to call 0300 303 0321

  • Enquire about fostering online

Share on social

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on X (formerly known as Twitter)
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share via Email

News

  • Meet the Rochdale foster carers dedicated to creating special memories

Events

  • Fostering information session - Rochdale Leisure Centre
  • Fostering information session - Heywood Sports Village
  • Fostering information session - Middleton Arena
Was this page helpful?
Back to top
  • Top 10 site Q1 2025 Sitemorse
  • Number One Riverside
  • Supporting our Armed Forces Families
  • Website approved by Plain English Campaign
  • Carbon Literate Organisation Bronze award
  • Disability Confident Employer
more awards
Go to Rochdale Borough Council home page Print Fallback Logo

© 2025 Rochdale Borough Council

Designed and powered by Jadu

  • Contact us
  • How to find us
  • About us
  • Our partners
  • Help with using this website
  • Accessibility
  • Site map
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Freedom of information (FOI)

Stay connected

  • Facebook (opens in a new window)
  • X (opens in a new window)
  • Instagram (opens in a new window)
  • Linkedin (opens in a new window)
  • YouTube (opens in a new window)
  • Subscribe (opens in a new window)