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Skills and abilities required
Many of the children who need foster care have been through some traumatic experiences. They may have quite challenging behaviours or just feel very lonely and afraid. As a foster carer, you will provide day to day care for a child in placement and will support them, help them develop and advocate on their behalf.
Here are some key skills and qualities that we look for in our carers:
Caring for children
 | An ability to provide a good standard of care to other people’s children |
| An ability to work with a child’s family |
| An ability to communicate with children and manage their behaviour appropriately |
| An ability to understand a child’s past in order to promote his/her emotional well being |
Provide a safe and caring environment
| An ability to ensure that children are safe from harm whilst in your care and in the community |
| An ability to respect the confidential nature of information provided on children and their families |
Team work and personal development
| An ability to work with all the professional staff involved in the child’s life in order to promote their best interest |
| An ability to communicate effectively |
| An ability to use training opportunities to improve skills |
| An ability to ask for help when times are difficult |