What is fostering?

Caring for Children and Young People

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Fostering offers the opportunity to do well in a caring environment

Fostering allows children and young people, who can no longer live with their parents, to live with another family where they will be closely supported. The foster home offers such children and young people security and the opportunity to do well in life within a caring and secure environment.

Children that come into care do so for various reasons including neglect and abuse. The uncertain life they have often lived can result in the children having emotional needs and varying behaviour. Foster carers work with a team to ensure that the foster child is supported to live as normal a life as possible where they experience care and support.

Helping to find Muslim children appropriate Muslim foster carers

Each foster placement and every child is unique. The care that child or young person needs is therefore also unique and needs to be tailored to those needs. However, some needs always remain the same such as the need for security and stability.

Foster carers play a vital role in the lives of foster children, it is with their guidance and nurturing that foster children are given the opportunity to live a brighter future and a successful life. As a specialist agency helping to find Muslim children appropriate Muslim foster carers, we hope you consider fostering in order to help muslim foster children in care. There are many different types of fostering, and it is important to understand this so that you can see whether fostering is for you.

Types of fostering

The duration of a fostering placement can vary depending on the circumstances of each individual child. Foster Care Link offers a number of different types of foster care arrangements.

Short Term Fostering

From a few days to several months, it provides a safe place for the child to live while the family try and sort out issues. Foster carers have an important role to play in helping them understand what is happening.

Medium Term Fostering

Sometimes children can’t return home to live with their parents. Parents may not be able to provide care for their children properly, even though they may love them. A child or young person stays with a foster family for a few years.

Long Term Fostering

This allows a child to grow up in a stable, supportive home until they become independent. It is usually older children who need a permanent foster home, however we have also dealt with many young sibling group placements.

Asylum Seekers

As a Muslim specialist fostering agency, being placed within a Muslim family immediately gives a young person a sense of safety as their faith identity is reflected in the carers and they do not need to worry about things such as halal food.

Caring For Teenagers

Teenagers need carers who are tolerant, patient and flexible but also able to lay down clear boundaries. Someone able to listen and help make sense of their world. Young people need help to develop the maturity and new skills needed for independent living.

Sibling Placements

Testimonials

Here’s what people had to say about our services:

The experiences, progress and outcomes for children and young people are
Outstanding.

Ofsted Report 2018

Children and young people receive excellent emotional and professional educational support from their foster carers and the agency.

Ofsted Report 2018

This is an exceptional agency that really does goes that extra mile in supporting children and sharing knowledge of how best to support children to my entire team.

Ofsted Report 2018

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