Perth and Kinross Council is supporting Foster Care Fortnight in 2025, which begins today, Monday 12 May.
The focus for this year's campaign is the power of relationships and the extraordinary impact that foster parents can have on children and young people who, for a wide range of reasons, are unable to remain with their birth families.
Carers can offer a home to a child or young person, for as long as is required - from just a few days or weeks to months or years. Personal qualities, and experience with children and/or young people, are more important than age or qualifications. Carers need to have experience of and enjoy spending time with children and young people and have a good sense of humour, lots of compassion, tolerance and bags of energy.
Councillor John Rebbeck, Convener of Learning and Families said: "All kinds of people can become foster carers - it is an extremely rewarding role to take on, not without its challenges, but the impact that carers have for children and young people can make a real, powerful difference to their lives.
"We have fantastic foster carers working with us here in Perth and Kinross and we are always keen to welcome more prospective carers to join them. In Foster Care Fortnight, I would urge anyone interested in making positive changes in a child's life to get in touch with our Family Based Care Team."
You can contact the Family Based Care Team by calling 01738 477806 or email ecsfpduty@pkc.gov.uk. For more information, visit our Fostering page.
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