Fostering provides much more than a stable home. A Foster Parent will have a huge impact on a child’s life.
Find out moreFoster Carer vs Foster Parent
Some fostering organisations will call individuals who look after children "Foster Carers" whilst other organisations will refer to them as "Foster Parents".
As an independent UK based Fostering organisation we prefer to use the term "Foster Parents", this is because we believe it better represents their role as a professional parent to our Foster children.
The term Foster Parent is used throughout the 2011 Fostering Service Regulations, with no reference to the term carer. We believe that the term Foster Parent reflects the moral and social responsibility of looking after another person’s child. In many ways what our Foster Parents do is ‘super-parenting’ and as such we think the term parent reflects the complexity and challenges of the work they do.
Being a Foster Parent takes nothing away from the child’s own parent, but means there is an obligation upon the Foster Parent to treat the children as an equal member of their family and fulfill the parenting task whilst the child lives with them.
