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Fostering or foster care is a way to provide a safe, secure and caring family environment for children who can’t live at home.
For lots of reasons, almost 40,000 children in England have been placed with foster carers. Many of these children will go back to their families after a while. In some cases, this may take days or weeks. Sometimes it can take much longer.
If a child can’t be returned to their families a decision may be made to find them a new permanent family, possibly through adoption.
In most cases, children in foster care will have regular contact with their families and their parents will continue to have responsibilities towards them.
We’re looking for people who care about children and young people and want to make a real difference to their lives. We need carers who:
There are lots of reasons why you should think about becoming a foster carer: