Children we foster
There are no two children in foster care who are the same but the following profiles should give you an idea of some of the children and young people we foster at Fostering People.
All of the children we foster have different needs, and therefore will require different approaches and responses. Foster carers need to be able to understand the impact of a child or young person’s life experiences on their development in order to know how best to help, and this understanding will come through a range of sources, backed up by carer training and support.
Carlton (aged 7) and Shanice (aged 4), are a dual-heritage brother and sister who have experienced severe neglect in their birth family. Carlton has significant problems coping with school and Shanice is very withdrawn. They were placed with one of our fostering families who did not know at first if they would return home or be adopted. Eighteen months later, after court proceedings, the children were helped to move to a permanent adoptive family.
Ellie is an 11 year old white girl who has a learning disability and was removed from the care of her parents following allegations of emotional and physical abuse. She distrusts adults and it took a lot of determination by the foster carers to bring her out of her shell. Ellie wanted to live back with her birth family and after several months of contact and intensive support, she was returned home. Unfortunately this didn’t work out and Ellie was returned to the fostering family on a long-term basis.
An unaccompanied male asylum-seeker aged 14, with unknown history and little English, is found in a motorway service station. He is placed with a black foster family who help get him established in school, support him in practicing his religion and liaising with the Authorities. He says very little about the trauma he has suffered but he maintains that he wants to return to his country when he is older.
