"Thanks, you made applying much easier for us"...Anne and Bill, from Stoke.

what is fostering?

While almost anyone can apply, foster carers need special qualities and some people will be more suited to it than others.

Foster carers need to have the time and energy to invest in a child or young person.

Fostering is looking after a child or young person in your home and caring for them while their own parents are unable to do so.

There are 50,000 children in foster care on any given day in the UK.