Hi! Just looking for any advice/information really, we are prospective parents.
I have a 5 year old son and a 18 months old. I am a part time primary school teacher so I have taught LAC and worked with agencies around them. So I have an idea of what types of traumas they can experience and how this manifests. Obviously every child and trauma are different.
We are hoping to start the application in perhaps 4 years when my youngest is around six. (Long way off I know, but I just want to do as much research as we can to make sure it’s right for us). My husband works in financial services. We live in London in a very deprived borough.
What are the rough ages of children that are matched to you? We are hoping to foster children just starting primary school age so 5 but not sure whether there are many children needing a foster home around that age. Can’t have younger children as council have said one parent would need to be home full time. I teach 2 days a week and am unwilling to give up my career I love and am good at. I doubt I’ll return to the classroom on a full time basis. Husband works full time. So the council have said as I want to continue working 2 days that I can only foster 5 + but I wouldn’t want to foster children older than my own... We live a very privileged life and feel so blessed. We have two spare bedrooms on our top floor no one ever uses. We are in a deprived area where they are crying out for foster Carers and having taught children in care I have some experience and feel we might be good family for fostering... just seems the age expectations are a bit mismatched...IM probably being too unrealistic or too narrow... sorry for waffling... anyway if there’s anyone from London, I’d appreciate your advice. And any information on the ages of children that need fostering. Do they tend to be 7+? how often are 5+ children needing foster care? Are many siblings? Thanks again.