Fostering & Safeguarding

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Foster Care is the temporary custody or guardianship for children whose parents are dead or unable to look after them. The following are the different types of foster care :
Emergency – When children need somewhere safe to stay for a few nights
Short-term – Carers look after children for a few weeks or months while plans are made for the child’s future
Short breaks – When children who are disabled, have special needs or have behavioural difficulties regularly stay for a while with a family. This means their parents or usual foster carers can have a break.
Remand – When young people are remanded by a court to be looked after by a specially-trained foster carer.
Fostering for Adoption – When babies or small children stay with foster carers who may go on to adopt them
Long-term – Not all children who need to permanently live away from their birth family want to be adopted, so instead they go into long-term foster care until they are adults.
‘Family and friends’ or ‘Kinship’ – A child being cared for by the local council goes to live with someone they already know, usually a family member.
Specialist therapeutic – For children and young people with very complex needs and/or challenging behaviour.
Safeguarding – Is protecting vulnerable children from abuse or neglect. It means making sure they are supported to get good access to health care and stay well. Safeguarding should make sure that childrenget the support they need to make the most of their lives and get their full equal rights.