Special celebration of the sons and daughters of our foster carers

Special celebration of the sons and daughters of our foster carers.

The Five Rivers Fostering Service is joining Fostering Network’s Campaign:
Sons & Daughters: Celebrating the Foster Family to acknowledge the phenomenal contribution which the children of foster carers make to fostering.

Fostering relies on the support, patience and co-operation of everyone in the household, fostering will present challenges but with those challenges come many rewards and you and your family will benefit from enabling your children to learn how to share, how to empathise and gain a greater understanding of the needs of others, for them to be able to develop a sense of social concern aimed at cultivating friendships and forming profound childhood memories.

Many of our foster carers find that when their children grow up, they go on to pursue careers in related roles, or even become foster carers themselves. However, asking a child or young person to share their parents, home and time with another young person is a huge request. By joining in with Fostering Network’s Sons and Daughters Campaign, we at Five Rivers Fostering are going some way to showing our appreciation.

As part of our celebrations The Five Rivers Fostering Service are having a social gathering in Exeter with our foster carers, their sons and daughters and our social workers and will be releasing a balloon to represent each of their own children and their fostered children.

David Baker Price Western Regional Manager said “Fostering has a huge impact on the whole family; therefore it is only right and proper to both recognise and celebrate the contribution made by our foster carer’s children sharing their parents, family home and toys with other youngsters. Many of these children and young people also give friendship and emotional support helping the ‘looked after child’ settle into their new home. This all contributes to the amazing success of foster care and is of immense value and support to some of our most vulnerable children and young people. On behalf of the Five Rivers Fostering Service, I would like to say a big thank you to the sons and daughters of our foster carers for the positive contribution they make helping to improve and enrich the lives of other children and young people.”

The Five Rivers Fostering Service is committed to recruiting and retaining high quality foster carers to meet the desperate shortage of 600 foster families in the South West Region.

To be able to foster with us you will have a furnished bedroom available, solely for the use of a foster child, be over the age of 21, able to communicate effectively in English.

As one of our fabulous foster carers you will benefit from generous foster carer allowances, paid holiday entitlement, extensive training, professional development and support.

If fostering is something you were always going to do one day. Today's the day.
For more information go to www.fivereasonwhy.co.uk or call 01858 412765.