Emergency care
There are times when a child may need to be placed in care due to unforeseen circumstances. This may happen out of office hours. Providing emergency care at short notice means children can be placed in a safe environment sooner rather than later.
Remand placements
Remand fostering can be a beneficial alternative to custody for children who are awaiting court proceedings.
Fostering for adoption (concurrent care)
Some children in care are placed with concurrent carers who have the potential to become their adoptive parents if a decision is made that they cannot return to their birth parents. This provides greater stability for the child. This is usually for an adoption agency or local authority.
Children who have been trafficked, criminally exploited or sexually exploited
Specialist foster carers take care of children who have previously experienced trafficking or sexual / criminal exploitation.
This type of foster care may be of particular interest to people who are experienced foster carers interested in developing new skills or perhaps have skills from work in the health, social, education or youth professions.
Bridging placements
Bridging is a type of short-term foster care which takes place when babies or young children ( or siblings) need a temporary home before moving on to somewhere more permanent. You may be asked to provide foster care on a short-term basis as we prepare to move children back in with their family or find long-term care or adoption place