Types of Fostering
Short-Break and Emergency Fostering
Short break foster care
There are occasions when we may need to arrange short break foster care for a child. It could be that a long-term carer has to attend a hospital appointment; perhaps the child needs a short break carer to look after them for a weekend or perhaps a week during the school holidays. Sometimes we're asked to help out a family who just need a bit of 'time out'.
We know that some people who would like to become full-time foster carers are initially a little anxious about caring for a child full-time. Becoming a short break carer is the ideal answer, it is a way of being able to foster even if you work full time.
Emergency foster care
We have a rota of foster carers who are able to keep a spare room available for emergencies. You would need to have some experience as a foster carer before offering to join the rota. Children and young people sometimes need a safe family in an emergency on an evening, in the middle of the night or at the weekend.
Contents of Types of Fostering
- Short-Term Fostering
- Long-Term Fostering
- Short-Break and Emergency Fostering (this page)
- TOPS Therapeutic Fostering
- Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
- Supported Lodgings
- Parent and Child Fostering
Further information
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Barnardo's Manchester Leaving Care Service
Barnardo’s Manchester Leaving Care Service website is a really useful resource for all looked after children & young people, their carers, care leavers and other professionals working on their behalf. Once you visited the site it would be really helpful if you could to tell us what you think, if there are any improvements we could make, what works and what doesn’t….so we can make sure it’s the best website it can possibly be.
