A mum is calling on people to make a difference as shortages of foster homes leave vulnerable children struggling to find a home. Cllr Paula Basnett, who has fostered children for 16 years, suggests that foster parents get more involved in the process to reassure potential parents. She shares her own experience of fostering and highlights the rewards and challenges of the role.
A mum is urging people “to make a difference” as shortages leave vulnerable children struggling to find a home.
She later became a special guardian for a baby in her extended family. When her daughter was four, Cllr Basnett started taking in other children with six over the last 12 years. With three children already, their family grew to 11 people. Fostering is managed on the Wirral by its council’s children’s services and is one of the most cost effective ways it can look after the more than 700 children in its care.
57% of Wirral’s 772 looked after children are with foster parents but nationally statistics show there is a shortage of foster parents with 1,400 more people leaving than becoming one. While things are better on the Wirral, it’s also seen a decrease. “We are crying out for foster parents. It’s a national shortage, it’s a regional shortage and it’s very much a local shortage on Wirral. I do think if families, employers, and individuals were aware of it more, you could get more.”
“I’m very lucky in that all of the six children had very similar values to our children and our family and it was very easy to integrate them into our family.”
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