Welcome to our foster care section

Fostering involves working closely with parents and other professionals, following an agreed plan to support families and to rebuild relationships.

The children who need to be fostered come from a variety of backgrounds and may have experienced much trauma and loss. As a vital part of the team, foster carers will help children come to terms with their experiences and prepare them to return to their family or move to an alternative permanent home. A foster carer is not the same as being a parent, however, you will need to make the same commitment in giving a child the best possible start in life.

Foster carers are very important within our society and most importantly to the many children whose lives are changed because of the safe, caring and supportive foster family in which they live. Carers come from varied backgrounds but all shared a common interest in wanting to work with children, help children in care and felt they had something to offer.

Standards

In 2007, CWDC developed and field tested our Training & Development Standards for Foster Carers.... Find out more...