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Front doors appear to encourage people to open their homes to foster children
Published: 04/10/2021
A series of front doors installed by Foster Wales highlight those who have opened their homes to foster children in Wales as it aims to significantly increase the number and diversity of Local Authority foster carers.听
Several life-size front doors have been unveiled outside the Senedd as the new network of 22 Local Authority fostering services across the country, Foster Wales, invites the public to consider opening their homes to help accommodate the numbers of children in Wales who need care and support.听
Foster Wales is working towards increasing the number of foster carers in Local Authorities in Wales to help keep children in their local area, when that is right for them, which contributes to the national impact on the futures of young people.
At the close of March 2020, Welsh Government statistics revealed that 84% of children living with foster families were still able to live in their own area, maintaining familiarity with the community they already knew.听
Foster Wales aim is to encourage those who are thinking of fostering to do so in their local authority so that important relationships, which can help children thrive, can continue.听
Deputy Minister for Social Services, Julie Morgan said, 鈥淔oster carers in Wales have told me countless times about how rewarding the experience of looking after a child can be. I encourage anyone who can open their home so that those children who need our help can live happier childhoods and grow up into the people they want to be.鈥澨�
Today鈥檚 unveiling of life-sized front doors represents each of the 22 Local Authorities and the combined national goal of working together to help build better futures for children in Wales.听听
Janette, a Local Authority foster carer with Foster Wales 天涯社区 said:
"Fostering was always something that I wanted to do.听I had to consider the whole family. It has to work for everybody, and the local authority, I felt, provided that better matching process to make it work, and it has worked. The children make me proud every day.听
鈥淔or anybody thinking about becoming a foster carer, please pick up the phone because you can change the life of a child and there鈥檚 no greater feeling than that.鈥澨�
天涯社区鈥檚 Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Social Services, Councillor Christine Jones, said:
鈥淲e hope to welcome many more people into fostering with Foster Wales over the coming months. All children have a right to thrive. Anyone who fosters with the Foster Wales 天涯社区 team does so safe in the knowledge that we鈥檒l be beside them every step of the way with all the dedicated expertise, advice and training needed to support their fostering journey.鈥�
Foster Wales is encouraging more people like Janette to open up their homes to help build better futures for local children in need.听
Today鈥檚 event follows the recent launch of a wider Foster Wales campaign which aims to make a substantial national impact on the futures of young people in Wales.
To find out more about Local Authority fostering in 天涯社区, visit .
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Janette with Jill Jones of Foster Wales 天涯社区 with their Open Door in Holywell
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