What does fostering involve?
Different children have different needs. However, all foster children need to be looked after in a caring home and, for many, to be helped to stay in touch with families and supported in their relationships with their parents. Whether you look after one child or help to keep brothers and sisters together, there is a kind of fostering to match the type of help you can offer. 1. Short term placements can last a few days, a week, a month or longer, while the difficulties in the child’s family are resolved or another home is found. 2. Long term placements are for children who need families to care for them until they are 16-18 years old. Whenever possible we try to keep brothers and sisters together. Long term placements are different from adoption because Social Services are the child’s legal parents, rather than you, and many children keep in touch with members of their family. 3. Respite Care usually lasts a weekend or maybe a week during holidays. Children who need respite care usually
