Our fostering services

Foster care placements should meet the needs of a range of children and young people. That's what our high-quality fostering services achieve.

They offer a variety of placement types with experienced foster carers from many backgrounds, ethnicities and religions. We always ensure every child is matched with the most appropriate carer.

We believe it's important for fostered children to maintain positive relationships with their own family. So that's what we help them do. If needed, we can also provide additional support when they return home.

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Our services include:

• Short-term placements for non-disabled and disabled children and young people
• Permanent placements with the same foster carer until the young person reaches the upper age limit for being looked after (and possibly beyond).
• Time-limited placements - short term or task focused
• Family-based short breaks
• Parent and child placement
• Specialist fostering
• Intensive Fostering
• Remand placements
• Youth Justice placements
• Placements for unaccompanied or asylum seeking children
• Support service for foster carers

'There was teamwork between all adults involved in the care-giving. The child was aware that the adults were communicating and this gave her a sense of security. This ensures there was no drift and delay with decision making' Local authority social worker.

Almost 94% of children and young people stated that living with their Action for Children foster carer had helped them, with 80% stating that it had helped them a lot.

Related downloads

• Fostering and family-based short breaks services brochure
• Action for children briefing: the value of therapeutic treatment for children in care
• Action for Children briefing: looked after children in Scotland