Could You Foster Brothers and Sisters Needing a Home Together in Lancashire?

Could You Foster Brothers and Sisters

Lancashire County Council are appealing to anyone who feels they could give a loving home to brothers and sisters.

Needing a Home Together in Lancashire?

In Lancashire, there are around 50 children each month in need of a foster home and about a third of these children are brothers and sisters, many of whom sadly face being separated.

We know how devastating it can be for any child to be separated from not only their parents but from their siblings. Their relationship is usually strong, but those who come from a challenging background can have an even deeper bond.

Why it is important to keep brothers and sisters together?

To be separated at one of the most frightening times in their lives can heighten feelings of anxiety, upset and confusion. Growing up in adverse circumstances siblings are often extremely close and reliant on each other, and often if there are older siblings, they can sometimes assume a care taking role for younger ones.

Fostering brothers and sisters can be so rewarding and there are many benefits of keeping them together:

• It provides children with familiarity and makes settling into their new home less traumatic, and often helps them to settle quicker. • It also causes less emotional trauma making them happier in their foster home.

• Being more settled at home often helps them achieve more at school. • It promotes their identity and sense of belonging by maintaining their family connections. • We know that the relationships between brothers and sisters can be the most lasting relationships during our lifetimes.

We asked some of our foster carers why keeping brothers and sisters together is important to them: • It’s so important that siblings stay together, watching them together is just so rewarding and such a joy. • Love, disagreements, competition and forever friends is a definition of a sibling group. • They are their own little support system and know what each other are going through.

• Caring for siblings does come with its own set of challenges but knowing that you are keeping them together helps you overcome these. • Fostering siblings enables them to share together, laugh together and most importantly, just be together! What are the benefits of fostering with Lancashire County Council?

We are a not for profit organisation, we know our children well, we work with and within the local community and you can be sure our foster carers have excellent support.

As a foster carer for Lancashire County Council, you will have access to 24-hour support, a supervising Social Worker, a mentor, fostering academy, Fostering Communities, regular support groups and 1 to 1 support available and on-going training to support your learning and development.

We also have a wellbeing programme, long service awards, support for sons and daughters of foster carers and also Lancashire County Council Foster Carers are eligible to apply to the Blue Light Card scheme.

When a sibling group of three or more children are matched and placed at the same time, foster carers will receive an additional incentive one off payment of £1,000, after the children have been successfully fostered for two months. Enquire today

If you feel that you are able to help and support children across Lancashire remain together and provide a stable, nurturing environment that they can thrive in you can register your interest on our website: www.lancashire.gov.uk/fostering or call us on 0300 123 6723

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