Children who need fostering

Many of the children in our care who need loving and supportive families have some sort of additional needs, usually due to the trauma they have experienced prior to coming into care.

Where possible, it is important for children to be placed with foster families who share the same cultural and ethnic background as they do.

This is to ensure a child can feel safe and understood in their new environment, which can be difficult at such an emotive time.

Unfortunately, we have a shortage of foster carers from ethnic minority backgrounds, so this is not always possible.

Most of the children in care are part of a sibling group, meaning that they are in care with their brother and/or sister.

It is vital that brothers and sisters are kept together in foster care to provide children with security and familiarity at what can be a distressing time.

If you have more than one spare bedroom, we would encourage you to consider fostering brothers and sisters together.

A significant number of the young people in care are teenagers (between 11 and 18 years of age).

We need foster carers who can offer guidance, support and patience as young people reach a crossroads into adulthood.