Rising Stars Fostering strongly promotes providing children and young people with local foster carers. This minimizes the disruption a young person or child may go through. There are a number of different types of placements offered by Rising Stars Fostering. Placements vary in duration and can last for days, months, or years depending on the needs of the child. We encourage New Rising Stars foster carers to be flexible and consider taking more than one type of fostering placement. Rising Stars Fostering provides the following placements:
A long –term placement gives a child permanency with their foster carers. This is the speciality at Rising Stars Fostering and we work hard to help children and young people flourish in a stable and supportive environment with their foster carers.
Rising Stars Fostering operates a 24-hour emergency service. Some foster carers are able to accept unplanned placements whereby the carer’s tasks would be to provide a place of safety and meet the immediate needs of the child or young person.
Sometimes we look after sibling groups and it is important that we try and keep brothers and sisters together. You need more than 1 spare room to take sibling groups
Respite placements are ideal for families, couples or singletons who work full time or part time; respite care provides short-term placements for children with the same carer. Respite care usually takes place on weekends or during school holidays in order to support an existing foster carer or family member. Due to its flexibility a respite carer can regulate their level of commitment to the agency.
Foster carers offer specialist care to children with complex needs which can include physical disabilities, medical conditions or learning difficulties. This kind of care is offered from birth until adulthood, and it can be short-term, long-term or regular respite care. Alongside helping the children, you will also be helping a child’s parents or carers with some much-needed respite and support, making this kind of care twice as rewarding.
We passionately believe that all children need a loving and safe home and where possible if a child can remain with their parents. Child and parent fostering is where you offer a home to both the parents and baby/young child (or maybe to both parents and the child). The parent may be under 18, they maybe a looked after child themselves or have additional needs. Sometimes they will be placed during the pregnancy so you can help them prepare, but most often arrive with their baby.
The parent and baby may need additional help and advice, and your role will be to advice, support and reassure, until they can move onto their independent home. As a role model you will be able to advice, guide and nurture the parent to hopefully have the outcome everyone hopes for.
We are looking for carers to specialise in unaccompanied and asylum-seeking fostering. Many of these young people have been separated from their families, either in their Homeland or during their travel to the UK. These children are often found extremely distressed and overwhelmed by their experience. In some instances, they have little to no English.
They often require a lot of reassurance, care and nurture. Although it can be a challenging experience for the child and their foster carer, it can also be hugely rewarding, as you see them settle into their new life in the UK.
The children may have little to no English. They often require a lot of reassurance, care and nurture. Although it can be a challenging experience for the child and their foster carer, it can also be hugely rewarding, as you see them settle into their new life in the UK.
Unfortunately, due to limited availability of foster carers some Children and young people can often find themselves living in residential care, whilst they are looking for a foster home offering a loving, stable, family environment. Or sometimes a child or young person due to their childhood experiences need a specialist level of care that only residential group homes can provide.
However, as they receive support and care to address these issues, they develop to a point when they would be better supported by a loving family environment of their own, and a foster carer is sought.
These children will have experienced a lot of difficulties such as severe neglect and abuse, may have experienced multiple moves and will be coming from a residential (large group) setting. The child or young person will have done so well at the point a foster carer is approached, that only a family home would be able to better support them progress onto the next stages of their journey.
some much-needed respite and support, making this kind of care twice as rewarding.