Comments from Children and Foster Carers

Comments from Children

Being in foster care can be a difficult and upsetting time for children. They are being taken away from their family and placed in an unfamiliar setting with strangers. Torbay Foster Care Service aims to provide children with a safe and happy experience.

Here are some of the positive and negative experiences that young people have had in care:

‘Don’t get on with other kids in placement, argued a lot because of differences. Don’t get
on with social worker’

‘My foster carers didn’t trust me, but I trusted them with my life. They let me down more
than my parents.’

‘It was a negative experience meeting my new family for the first time.’

‘Being in foster care is better than being at home’

‘It is a safer environment being in care’

‘I moved into foster care and everything else was good for the next 3 years’

‘Going with someone nice, having animals, being with friends and family.’

‘Don’t always feel able to ask carers for things that we want’.

Comments from Foster Carers

Being foster carers for Torbay has its benefits and can be very rewarding. Here is what some experienced carers have to say:

‘rewarding job to be able to help children and young people’

‘can make a difference in a young persons life’

‘to be there for children through good and bad times’

‘helping support a child through a difficult time in their life - offer some comfort’

‘were you have had young people for a while and see them successfully return home - feel like
you have done something to help that family’

‘help young people through hard times – make a difference in their life’

‘rewarding when you see children you have cared for grown up and they acknowledge the
positives that you have made in their life’

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Tel: 01803 207857
Email: fostercareservice@torbay.gov.uk
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