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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