- Short-term fostering (up to two years)
- Long-term fostering (up to adulthood)
- Emergency response
- Respite care
- Mother and baby
- Part-time link care (children with disabilities)
- The council particularly needs foster carers to provide short and long-term care for older children, teenagers and large groups of brothers and sisters.
Who can do it?
- Peterborough City Council welcomes single people and couples, irrespective of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
- You do need to be over the age of 21 and have a positive outlook, energy, enthusiasm and commitment.
- The council's main concern is that you are able to help a child develop both emotionally and physically.
- You could make a valuable different to a child's life and future.
What help will you get?
- Peterborough City Council Adoption and Fostering Unit support you in a variety of ways.
- Financial assistance for adopters and foster carers.
- On-going training programme and support groups.
- A social worker allocated to support you.
- Advice from a network of other professionals.
- A 24 hour telephone support line.
Related feature:
'If you've space in your home and your heart, you can foster'Julia Ogden found out more about what skills you need to foster and spoke to two families whose lives have been transformed because of this work. 12 March 2009.
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Anyone interested in fostering should visit the children in care department at Peterborough City Council's Bayard Place offices in Broadway, Peterborough, call 01733 317427 or 0800 0850713 or e-mail
afuduty@peterborough.gov.uk or visit
Peterborough City Council Website: Fostering - http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-9731.
Details last updated: 12 March 2009.
