Blog 6 information about foster care

I have now decided and gathered some ideas on how to make my DVD cover and am still gathering images I would like to use on my DVD. As my topic is a sensitive one and not many people know a lot about foster care, it can be misunderstood and misplaced as something bad when infact it can help improve someone's life.

Foster care only started in the 19th century but there were no laws created about it until the 20th century in the UK. It was called back then "boarding out" and just like many other countries foster care, adoption or short term care was always an option for people. Admittedly it has got a lot better over the years as there have been more laws created for the child's protection.

For those who don't know foster care, it is a way of providing a safe and welcome home for a child/young person (up to the age of 18) where they are looked after until they are ready To leave or when an court order has ran out.  Not all reasons for foster placements to end are because the court order ends, it can be because of it being short placement. This is where their placement is for a short period of time and can be between 1 night to 6 months. Short placement is an emergency accommodation.

There are different reasons for people going into foster care but no matter how hard the situation is for the child/young, there will always be a room waiting for them to keep them safe and secure. All foster children/young people have different situations and it's the foster carers job role to keep them safe and secure and to treat them like their own daughters/sons.

The longer the foster child/young person stays with their foster carer they are more likely to feel attachment; it can be heartbreaking for the foster carer to have to say goodbye to the foster child/young person.  Some foster children/young person can have different experiences of foster care depending on which foster company they are with, as different foster company have different rules and do things differently.

References:

Wikipedia (2015) Forster Care. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care (Accessed: 13 February 2015).

International Foster Care Organisation (2015) What Is Foster Care. Available at: http://www.ifco.info/foster-carers/what-is-foster-care (Accessed: 13 February 2015).