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UK Foster care for mother and baby

By: Joe Webb

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Parent and child foster care placements offer a home to a baby or young child together with its parent. The aim of this is to provide a safe, family based placement for parent and baby.

It may be that a parent has not had a positive family life and positive input from a foster carer can provide the help a young parent needs with reassurance, guidance and support during a period of considerable change. As a foster carer, you would be helping them to develop their own parenting skills whilst ensuring the child was in a safe, secure and nurturing environment.

Evidence is becoming more firm about pregnancies for some girls in care not being solely negative and that having a baby was becoming more of a positive experience, giving them someone to love and bear responsibility for. With the right support, often in foster care, parenthood for these girls has also been found to be positive as has their standard of care for their child.
There is ample evidence that suggests that babies who did not have the opportunity for attachment to their mothers were often negatively effected in their self esteem and ability to make positive relationships with others, often throughout their lives.

This is clearly an argument to make every effort to support young mothers towards good parenting and against frequent changes of placement in babyhood, along with extended foster care placement past the age of eighteen.
Research on looked after children's health needs, suggests that the most needy children, those in care, suffered from being sometimes the most neglected. Their episodes in care could sometimes subject them to further damage, rather than help to remedy their problems.

The Government has shown concern about this issue, however there has been criticism that that their responses are more focussed on corporate priorities rather than practical ways of helping children. There was a danger that Government target-setting might lead to bureaucracy dominated care.
Parent and Child Foster care placements offer a home to a baby or young child together with its parent. This is usually for a period for between 12 to 24 weeks.
It may be that a parent has not had a positive family life and positive input from a foster carer can provide the help a young parent needs with reassurance, guidance and support during a period of considerable change. As a foster carer, you would be helping them to develop their own parenting skills whilst ensuring the child was in a safe, secure and nurturing environment.
As a foster carer, you would be helping them to develop their own parenting skills whilst ensuring the child was in a safe, secure and nurturing environment.
There are foster carers who have developed skills in this area of work. They take part in assessments and encourage young mothers without taking over their parental responsibilities.

There is a growing need for more foster carers who are interested in looking after young, most often teenage mothers and their babies.

It is of paramount importance to choose the right fostering agency, there are over seven hundred in the UK. Simply Fostering, the UK national foster carer recruitment website provides help by answering questions and identifying the most suitable local fostering agencies with vacancies.

Simply Fostering help people interested in becoming foster carers to act on the Government's advice to 'contact more than one Fostering Agency if you are interested in a fostering career'.

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For comprehensive and easy to understand information, help and advice, contact Annette or Joe at Simply Fostering <www.simplyfostering.co.uk>.

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