Foster care is a system which enables adults to take care of a child or children that

are not taken care of by their own birth parents. If the parents cannot care for and
provide for their children for any reason, agencies and courts send the children for
foster care. In most of the cases of foster care, the child or children stay with the
foster family for full length of time but at times it may vary, depending upon the
individual interests. Foster care is different from adoption because the foster careers
are provided a salary to look after the child.

As part of your role, you will need to be able to:

Work closely with the childs family and those important to the child
Set appropriate boundaries and manage a childs behavior without resorting to
physical or inappropriate punishment

Listen and communicate with children in a manner appropriate to their age and
understanding
Ensure that children are cared for in a home safe from harm and abuse and
advise the children on how to get help when they need to
Help children to develop secure attachments with adults by helping them to
realize that some adults can provide them with safe and effective care
Work with other professionals and contribute to and help to implement a care
plan for the child. This may include specific responsibilities e.g. making sure
the child is able to visit her/his family and friends
Speak up for the child in order to ensure that they receive good care and the
opportunity to develop

The children needing foster care are as individual as the foster careers providing it.
They come from all sorts of different backgrounds; have very different reasons why
they need foster care and need different types of support and help from their foster
careers.
For most of the children and young people in care, whatever the reason they need
fostering, what theyre really looking for is support, stability and normality. They
dont want to be treated as special cases; they just want to have an ordinary home.
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