Webpages in Types of Fostering
Short-term and long-term foster care
Providing care for a child or young person for a short time or on a more permanent basis
Enhanced foster care
Supporting a child or young person who is moving into foster care from a residential care unit
Parent and child foster care
Providing foster care to vulnerable parents and their young children
Respite foster care
Supporting foster families, adoption families or birth parents by providing short term foster care for a child or young person
Short breaks foster care
Supporting a child or young person with disabilities and their family by providing short term foster care
Connected care
Fostering a child or young person you already have an established, positive relationship with
Emergency foster care
Giving a home to children or young people when they need to be kept safe urgently
PACE bed foster care
Providing urgent foster care for a child or young person at the request of the police
New Roads foster care
Working paid shifts as a foster carer in one of our residential care hubs
Staying put arrangements
When a young person who has been living in foster care continues to live in the foster home after that age of 18