Parent & Child Fostering Summary
Posted 25 June 2024
During the last 6 months, this article series has touched on the key facts of Parent and Child Foster Care and aimed to provide our readers with all the information needed to make an informed choice on Parent and Child Fostering as a life step.
To sum up this series, here are the basic facts that we have learnt over the past months.
Starting the journey to become a Parent and Child Foster Carer will begin with the approval process that last around four to six months. After this, you will be approved as a carer by our local panel and from that day onwards, you have the potential to take on placements.
But don’t worry - you won’t be thrown into anything too soon, only when you are ready! Once you receive your first placement, your social worker will guide you through every step of the way but it doesn’t stop there. Ongoing support groups and training will help you along the way.
To summarise what our carers think about parent and child fostering, it is a very rewarding feeling when parents who have had children taken away from their care in the past, coming into care allowing them to receive the nurture and guidance meaning they can go home with their babies.
It also highlights how nice it is to provide parents with a sense of family that they may not have felt before.
If you feel that there was information missing through this series, please feel free to reach out to one of the team. At Footprints, we have a mixture of Foster Carers providing different levels of care to young people and parents, so we are sure to have an expert on hand with testimonials to learn from.
At Footprints, our main ethos is to provide you with the support needed to have confidence in the role as a Foster Carer, so even if you do not feel like you have the knowledge at this time, we will help you to gain this through training and support groups.