Foster carers care for someone else’s children in their homes. Fostering is different from adoption; you will share the children’s care with their parents and with the council.

Like the children they look after, foster carers come from different backgrounds.

However, they all have one thing in common – they care about children and want to help them through a difficult time in their lives.

We need carers for all ages of children. But there is a particular need for foster carers who can care for teenagers, children with disabilities, and groups of children (for example, brothers and sisters who we don’t want to separate).