What is Fostering?
At Ryancare fostering, we provide safe and supportive homes for both children, sibling groups and teenagers. Many children and young people cannot live with their own families and the aim of Ryancare fostering is to provide security to those young people on a short, medium or long term basis. There is such a diverse range of children needing care, we need to identify a range of carers to meet thier needs. This may be carers who can offer general foster care or those that specialise working with teenagers, parent and child or challenging beaviour.
At Ryancare we care for children from all different communities and backgrounds , we need carers who can reflect this aspect at every level. Our foster carers come from all backgrounds and we are justifyably proud that our community of carers come from all walks of life. Some have professional backgrounds in child care whilst others have had life experience that reflect some of the children’s.
Ryancare offers various types of fostering to children and young people.
- General foster care – for children aged 0-18 years.
- Sibling groups
- Older teenagers with some difficulties
- Parent and child placements
- Child with disabilities
There are a range of reasons why children come in to care, including neglect, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, drug or alcohol issues, lack of support, mental illness, poverty, disability or medical issues, homelessness, family crisis and abandonment.
All children with Ryancare come from different backgrounds and require different types of care this can mean:-
- a placement in an emergency
- a placement over night
- a placement over a long weekend
- a placement for a few months
- a placement for several years
- a placement until they can live independently
When we meet with you, we want to discuss the best care you can offer children. Therefore we encourage you to think about the best type of care you are able to provide. You can even specify the age or gender of children you can best work with.
The Ryancare community are people from all backgrounds and cultures, single, married, working full time, part time, studying, or not in paid employment, living alone, with family, or in a shared household or rented property, childless or have children of their own.