Remand fostering:
When young people are remanded by a court to the care of specially trained foster carer/carers.
Family and Friends/Kinship foster care:
A child who is the responsibility of the local authority goes to live with someone they already know, which usually means a family member, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers or sisters.
Specialised Therapeutic foster carers:
Foster care for children and young people with very complex needs and/or challenging behaviour.
Long term foster care:
Not all children who have to live permanently away from their birth family need to be adopted so instead they can go in to long term foster care.
