Foster Carer Information
What you’ll need

Practically, you’ll only need to have a spare bedroom - we will provide training, support and a generous financial allowance. Personally, however, you will need to be patient, caring, interested in the child,s education and well-being, sympathetic and dedicated. You’ll need to be prepared - and so will your family, if you have one - for the ups and downs of fostering: the angry outbursts, the tantrums, the times when your foster child suddenly wants to talk about painful feelings (and the times when they want to keep those feelings to themselves). You will need to be sensitive to their experiences and their temperaments, but also prepared to discipline them when appropriate. You will need, above all, to show a willingness to understand them.