Fostering is a way of providing stable family life for children and young people who are unable to live with their parents.
This allows them the chance to thrive in a safe, secure, loving and caring home environment. Fostering is challenging
Fostering is a way of providing stable family life for children and young people who are unable to live with their parents.
This allows them the chance to thrive in a safe, secure, loving and caring home environment. Fostering is challenging but rewarding and takes time, patience and commitment.
- The children and young people placed with foster carers are from a diverse range of backgrounds and will display different behaviour depending upon their various experiences.
- All children and young people are different, making it difficult to define a “typical child”. However, what you can expect is that, as with any child or young person, they need security, stability and the chance to develop and thrive.
- Fostering differs from adoption, in that an adoption order ends a child’s legal relationship with their natural family, whereas looked after children remain the legal responsibility of the local authority and/or their birth parents.
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