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Types of fostering

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  • General foster careGeneral foster care for children and young people of all ages
  • Parent and childSpecially trained foster carers will take both young parents and their babies into their home
  • SleepoversPart-time care to provide both the children and their family with a break
  • Supported lodgingsGive your time and space to support a young person as they get ready for adulthood
  • Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)Children or young people no longer safe in their home country
  • SpecialistCare for children from a residential setting
  • Friends and familyWhere a child is cared for by a person connected to them e.g. relative or friend
  • Who needs a foster home?Example child profiles based on some of the children currently looking to be fostered

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