What foster carers do
Foster carer role
Foster Carers offer a safe and secure home where children and young people feel valued, respected, cared for, enabling each child or young person to reach their full potential.
Foster Carers take a close interest in the lives of the children and young people, providing therapeutic care and nurturing and embracing the uniqueness, special qualities and talent of each child or young person.
Foster carer Tasks
There are specific tasks related to caring for a foster child that you will need to undertake. This can include:
Attending meetings and appointments with and for the child/young person
Keeping records
Being the child/young person’s advocate
Supporting a child/young person’s educational, health and social wellbeing
Helping the child/young person to access resources e.g. counselling
Supporting a child/young person to maintain their religious and cultural identity
Key relationships
You will also need to work with other professionals involved in the child or young person’s life. This may include Social Workers, health, education professionals and others that make up the team around the child or young person.
When children or young people live in foster care, it is important for them to keep in touch with their birth family – mum, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or grandparents – through regular meetings. Foster Carers play a big part in maintaining family links and ensuring that family time takes place and is positive.
Our pre-approval training course, (Skills to Foster), offers an excellent opportunity to learn more about what Foster Carers do before making a commitment.
