Children Need Fostering
Why do children need fostering?
Foster carers take children and young people into their homes and look after them during periods when their families can’t do so. The reasons why children may need to be fostered are many and varied but would include short term illness in their family, depression or other mental health problems affecting their parents or drug and alcohol abuse within the family. Some children may have been abused or neglected.
Social workers and foster carers will work with families to help them sort out any problems and make the home a safer place for a child with the ultimate aim, in most cases, of reuniting child and parents.
Respite care is another important form of fostering. Many families might need to use respite care to recharge everyone’s batteries - including the child’s - especially if the child has complex medical issues.
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