This year alone fostering services need to find more than 5,000 new fostering households across the UK. Without these new recruits, we will struggle to find the right home for
each child; too many fostered children will have to move a long way from their families, be split up from their brothers and sisters or be “squeezed in” where there is a
spare room, rather than being able to live with a foster family who can meet their particular needs.
wider pool of foster carers right across the UK is needed to keep these children within their local area wherever possible. The more people who are approved as foster carers, the
more likely it is that a good match can be found for a child in terms...