Barnardo’s is calling for more fosterers and adopters

Barnardo’s had a fostering and adoption week – 18-22 January 2010 is promoting the urgent need for family placements and adoptive parents.
There are 10,000 children in the UK in need of foster family and 2,500 children in need of a permanent loving home.
As a pioneer of modern day fostering and adoption, Barnardo’s first placed children in family settings more than one hundred years ago. In the past century, Barnardo’s has developed a diverse range of fostering and adoption services to meet the needs of children who are waiting for families today including:

• Short break foster carers who provide support for families with disabled children by sharing in their care.

• Foster carers who take children into their families for periods of a few weeks up to several years.

• Specialist foster care services who work with unaccompanied minors such as asylum seeking children.

• Adopters who make a lifetime commitment to children needing a permanent family and who become their legal parents.

For further information on becoming a fosterer or adoptive parent, visit: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/fosteringandadoption