Social services Where you will live

When you’re in care, where you live is called your ‘placement’. This might be:

  • with a member of your wider family, like an aunt, uncle, grandparent or family friend
  • with foster carers in their family home
  • in a children’s home (usually for older children)
  • being adopted; or
  • sometimes children in care live at home with their parents; or
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