Preparing For Leaving Care
Preparing For Leaving Care Factsheet
Fostering young people can be a balancing act between looking after them and helping them to become more independent.
What is the Difference Between Fostering & Adoption?
Fostering and Adoption Differences
Foster carers offer short term, temporary or longer-term care to a child or children.
Introduction to Attachment and Foster Care
What is attachment?
Attachment refers to the bond between someone who needs care from their caregiver.
Fostering and Autism Spectrum Disorders Factsheet
Fostering and ASD
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect around 700,000 people in the UK.
Independent Review Mechanism
What is the Independent Review Mechanism?
The process by which prospective or approved foster carers, can seek a review of a ‘qualifying determination’.
Fostering Families
Fostering Families Factsheet
Fostering involves the whole family and it can have a positive impact on everyone in the household.
Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Factsheet
Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and Young People
The UK has a long history of welcoming and supporting families and children arriving here.