Types Of Fostering

There are many different types of foster placements that centre around the individual needs of the children and young people requiring care.

Matching children to the right family

Throughout the assessment process, working with your dedicated social worker, we establish together the best types of foster placements for you.

Making sure you are well equipped for those particular placement types.

You can be approved for multiple types of foster placement depending on your experience and circumstance. Note throughout the panel process your approvals can change.

It’s all about matching children to the right families.

You can read more about the types of foster placement here:

Fostering short term

Short-term fostering typically lasts a few days/weeks whilst more permanent long-term arrangements are made - however, some short-term placements can last months even years.

Short term fostering

Fostering long term

Long-term fostering or ‘Family for life’ is where a child or young person remains in your care permanently, until they reach adulthood and have the desire to live independently.

Long term fostering

Short break fostering

Formerly known as Respite care - offers a foster family some downtime, enabling both the child/young person and their foster parents some well needed space to rest.

Short break fostering

Short notice fostering

In some cases, a child or young person requires immediate placement and must be placed with a family without any formal introductions.

Short notice fostering

Fostering siblings

Where appropriate, keeping siblings together is an absolute priority for the CFT and one of the areas that nationally, fostering agencies struggle to recruit.

Fostering siblings