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Think Fostering, Think Barnardo’s
Over 30 years of experience in Scotland of placing children in families.
Children and young people who require foster care are likely to have faced some difficulties in their lives with many having experienced neglect or abuse.
Long-term foster placements can provide good, stable homes. However, due to the shortfall in carers a childhood in foster care often involves multiple placement moves between one emergency foster carer to the next. A third of all children in foster care will have two or more placements in one year.
Barnardo’s works specifically to recruit foster carers for those children who are deemed ‘harder to place’ because of ethnicity, age, disability or by being a sibling group.
Every child has the right to a stable and happy childhood - without a permanent foster family these children miss out on the care and stability they so desperately need.
Fostering can be a life changing, life enriching experience for the carers and the child.
Barnardo’s wants to hear from people interested in fostering. Barnardo’s does not exclude anyone from consideration on the grounds of marital status, sexual orientation, disability or employment status.
People may feel the challenge of fostering is too great but Barnardo’s views its relationship with foster carers as a partnership offering continued support, training and advice for as long as it is needed.
For more information visit www.barnardos.org.uk/fosteringandadoption or call 0845 894 9501