{"id":31,"date":"2016-10-19T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:24:30","slug":"can-i-foster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/can-i-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Foster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Room4U Teenage Fostering Service provides high quality foster placements for teenagers and young parents with babies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are looking for couples and single people willing and able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer a full time home to a young person aged 12+ or a young parent and their baby; or<\/li>\n<li>Offer short term breaks to these young people and, where applicable, their babies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Foster carers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and walks of life.<\/h3>\n<p>They can be young or mature, LGBTQ+, have children or be childfree, employed or unemployed, home owners or renters. They come from different ethnic backgrounds and have a variety of faiths or none. ROOM4U foster carers will be people who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have already enjoyed caring for teenagers at home or work or in a voluntary capacity;<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy working as part of a team &#8211; social workers, educators, professional staff and young person\u2019s family;<\/li>\n<li>Can be flexible and able to negotiate and compromise;<\/li>\n<li>Are calm, tolerant, energetic, resourceful and stick at things if the going gets tough;<\/li>\n<li>Have a spare bedroom for sole use of a teenager or a parent and baby;<\/li>\n<li>Live within 40 miles of the City of Edinburgh boundary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a useful video from The Fostering Network on who can foster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefosteringnetwork.org.uk\/advice-information\/could-you-foster\/who-can-foster\">https:\/\/www.thefosteringnetwork.org.uk\/advice-information\/could-you-foster\/who-can-foster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please ask us if you have questions about your own particular circumstances and how they might affect an application to foster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room4U Teenage Fostering Service provides high quality foster placements for teenagers and young parents with babies. We are looking for couples and single people willing and able to: Offer a full time home to a young person aged 12+ or a young parent and their baby; or Offer short term breaks to these young people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.room4ufostering.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}