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Types of fostering

Emergency:
When children need somewhere to stay for a few nights.

Short term:
When carers look after children for a few weeks or months while plans are made for the child's future.

Short breaks:
When disabled children with special needs or children with behavioural difficulties regularly stay for a short period of time with a family so that their parents or usual foster carers can have break.

Remand:

When young people are remanded by a court to the care of specially trained foster carer/carers.

Long term:
Not all children who need to live permanently away from their birth family want to be adopted so instead they can go to long term foster care.

Family and Friends/Kinship: 
A child who is the responsibility of the local authority goes to live with someone they already know, which usually means a family member, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers or sisters.

Parent and child:
Usually a mother and her child are placed with foster carers to keep the child and mother safe and often to provide an assessment of the mother's parenting skills.

Specialised Therapeutic:
For children and young people with very complex needs and/or challenging behaviour.

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