Service Description: Fostering is substitute family care for children and young people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to live with their own families. Services available via the Fostering Service are Long Term Fostering, Short Term Fostering, Respite Care, Day Care Providers, Family Link and Combined Accomodation Scheme (CAS). The service currently consists of 3 Units and a Fostering Duty Worker.
Answer: Children are fostered at all ages and from all backgrounds. Foster carers tend to specialise in particular age groups: broadly, ‘babies and toddlers’, ‘young children’ or ‘teenagers’, but there are no rules that you only do one or the other.