Caring for a foster child with challenging behaviours

Life as a specialist foster carer

Caring for a foster child with challenging behaviours is for compassionate and patient people. Also known as Intensive Foster Care, this requires a significant commitment, and you'll work alongside the child's specially-trained support worker. It's important that both you and anyone else in your household is committed to this journey. Our foster carers tell us it's a practical way they can use their skills and life experience to help create a better future for a child with challenging behaviours - who may have already lived at a number of foster homes. Foster parents tell us life can follow a similar pattern, whenever a child arrives in their home. But there are additional things you'll need to know if you're considering opening your home and heart to a child with particularly challenging behaviours: