Fostering, Supported Lodgings & Independent Visitors - drop in space

Fostering is looking after someone else’s child or children when they can’t live with their own family. This can be for a day or two, a few months, or many years. Sometimes a child will return home to live with their family, they may be adopted, or be fostered until they reach adulthood.

Fostered children may have suffered from neglect and/or abuse and need a stable loving home where they can grow and thrive. Every child’s story is different, but they will all have had a difficult start in life and have faced loss and separation from their birth family.

Children and young people who need foster care range from newborn up to the age of18. Many are part of a sibling group, and all will come from a variety of geographical areas, and a wide range of different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds.

Like the children they look after, foster carers come from all sorts of different backgrounds, cultures, religions, and age groups too. What our carers have in common is a genuine desire to support children and young people through a difficult time in their lives and to give them the best future possible.