until they can return home, while others will stay with foster carers for the longer term or move elsewhere.
Almost anyone can apply to be a foster carer, but as with any job, some people will be more suited to it than others. Prospective foster carers need skills and experience that will enable them to meet the needs of vulnerable children and young people who are separated from their families.
If you foster a child with Fostering and Adoption Jersey, you’ll become part of a professional team which works to support you 24/7. The Fostering and Adoption team will provide ongoing training, supervision and support, which will help carers to develop particular skills and abilities to look after children and young people with challenging behaviours and complex needs.
People can apply to foster regardless of marital status, sexuality or residential status. Foster carers come from a diverse range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds which reflect the children and young people who are in care.
All foster carers receive a fostering allowance which should cover the cost of caring for a fostered child. Fostering and Adoption also pay their foster carers a fee on top of the allowance, in recognition of their time, skills and experience.
P is a young child with communication difficulties who needed a foster placement. At the time we were unsure whether he would return to his family. We had recently approved foster carers who already had fantastic skills and experience in looking after children with more complex needs. They agreed to look after P in the short term. The Court has now made the decision that P can’t return to his birth family and the foster carers have made the commitment to foster long term.
We have carers who are very skilled in moving younger children into adoptive placements. Baby S needed a foster placement; he was only months old. S was placed with foster carers where he thrived and enjoyed the company and attention of the foster carer’s children. S’s social worker together with other professionals were working very hard with S’s birth mother, however it was eventually decided that he could not return to her. Suitable adopters were found for S and the foster carers were instrumental in moving baby S into the adoptive family, offering support and advice and opening up their home to the adopters to facilitate careful introductions. S is now adopted and thriving in his new family.
Mr and Mrs C. have been foster carers for many years. They have offered short term, long term and emergency foster care. The carers fostered a young person for many years and gave her the security and support which hugely improved her self-esteem, thus laying the foundation for her to do well in education. The young person has moved to university and is doing very well and hoping to graduate in a couple of years. The carers continue to support her and she visits them during her holidays.
If you want to find out more about fostering in Jersey please
contact the team on tel: 443970 or send an e-mail to
fosteringandadoption@health.gov.je
We would love to hear from you.
Family disagreements, separation, children's Law matters
…can all end up in Court
For a free consultation to discuss the alternatives Contact Advocate Matthew Godden at Le Gallais & Luce
mgodden@lgl.je - tel. 760710
Traditional values. Modern approach.
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