Fostering with Quarriers
What is fostering?
Fostering is a way of providing a family life for children and young people in your own home when they cannot live with their birth family. Fostering can make positive and lasting differences to the lives of children and young people.
It can be used to provide short term care for children and young people, while their parents get help to deal with their problems, have a short break to support children or young people through a difficult period in their lives.
Children and young people may be able to return home once the problems that caused them to come into foster care have been resolved and that it is clear that their parents are able to look after them safely.
Other children and young people may stay in long-term foster care, some may be adopted, and others will move on to live independently.
Children and young people with a variety of needs can benefit from a period of respite that short break foster carers can offer.
Foster carers play a vital role in providing a safe, secure and stable fostering environment for looked after children and young people which encourages positive and brighter futures.
Find out more about who can foster and the fostering process.
Related services
Quarriers Family Support Service - Dumfries & Galloway
More about fostering
- Who can foster
- The fostering process
- Fostering Enquiry
More information on Children and Families services
- Befriending
- Carers
- Childcare at home
- Fostering
- Residential Childcare
- Short breaks
- Family Centres
- View all Children and Families services
Get in touch
Scotland
Quarriers Fostering Service
Head Office, Quarriers Village
PA11 3SX
Liz Hamilton - 01505 616010
email
South West England
Bath Regional Office
Helen Vennard
01225 312 010
email