Types of Fostering
Types of Fostering
Foster carers support children and young people from various backgrounds and life experiences. We encourage potential foster carers to consider caring for a diverse range of children, ensuring that every child in need finds a loving and safe home.
Short-Term Fostering
Short-term fostering is needed when local authorities identify that a child must be cared for outside of their family home for a limited period.
Long-Term Fostering
Long-term fostering provides ongoing care for children who are unable to return to their families, offering them stability in a family environment.
Short Break Care
Short Break Care offers temporary foster care to give a child’s main carer time to rest while ensuring the child remains in a nurturing environment.
Fostering Teenagers
While many think of younger children in foster care, there is an increasing need for foster carers to support teenagers who are also in need of safe, stable homes.
Fostering Sibling Groups
When siblings enter foster care together, it is often recommended to keep them together to provide mutual emotional support.
Parent and Child Fostering
This type of fostering helps young parents begin their parenting journey with the guidance of an experienced foster carer to support both parent and child.
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) need foster carers sensitive to their cultural needs and upbringing as they navigate a new country.
Fostering Children with Disabilities
Fostering children with disabilities may require additional medical care and support, making compassionate and capable foster carers vital.
Emergency Fostering
Emergency fostering is a rapid response type of care for children in urgent need of a safe environment, requiring immediate action from foster carers.
Step Down Fostering
Step Down Fostering supports children transitioning from residential care back into a family environment, providing a stable and supportive home.