Simply Fostering

• 2.1: Introduction
• 2.2: Types of foster care
  • 2.2.1: Disabled children
  • 2.2.2: Parent child fostering

  • Current page is 2.2.3: Asylum seeking children

  • 2.2.4: Fostering teenagers
  • 2.2.5: Long Term
  • 2.2.6: Short term
  • 2.2.7: Kinship
• 2.3: Why do people foster?
• 2.4: Fostering as a career
• 2.5: Minimum Standards
• 2.6: Private fostering
• 2.7: Fostering A to C
• 2.8: News

Asylum seeking children fostering

There are foster carer placements required where children and young people can feel safe and begin to build a new life for themselves. Fostering Agencies are looking for foster carers who can provide a stable foster home and lots of support and encouragement to help these children feel safe and secure. Youngsters do well when they are placed with a foster carer of the same language, religion and culture.

What kind of people can be foster carers for unaccompanied asylum seekers?

You would usually have to:

• speak another language
• speak English to a certain level
• have indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom
• have been resident in the United Kingdom for more than five years

The same fostering assessment and checks are required to become a foster carer for asylum seeking children as any other child or young person.