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Foster children come from a wide range of backgrounds and may
have experienced trauma and loss. Foster carers play a crucial role
in helping the children to come to terms with their experiences.
The carers follow an agreed plan to support families to rebuild
relationships and prepare children to return to their family or
move to an alternative permanent home.
Fostering is not the same as parenting, but foster carers will
need to make the same commitment to giving a child the best
possible care and assist the young people to achieve and experience
positive outcomes.
To find out more please :
Kent Social Services have
around 700 foster carers supporting the work we do, in protecting
and looking after children in Kent. These carers are professionals
in their own right, developing skills and knowledge through
training and experience.
Foster carers are welcomed from
all sections of the community with a diversity of
experiences but all prospective carers share a common interest in
wanting to work with and help children in care, and feel they have
something to offer.
Our foster carers are valued
and important to us and to the many children whose lives are
changed because of the safe, caring and supportive foster family in
which they live. We always need new foster carers for our children
and young people and encourage you to contact us.
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