Our foster carer, Maggie, has been doing long term fostering, short term fostering and respite foster care with Community Foster Care for the last 16 years.

We sat down to hear all about her fostering experience and answer some of the most significant fostering FAQs from her perspective. We know that when people are thinking about fostering, they think about it for a long time and gather as much fostering information and first hand accounts before reaching out to their local authority of an independent fostering agency. We hope that this can help anyone who is doing their fostering research and if you're based in Gloucestershire, North Wiltshire, Lancashire or Cumbria, and want to foster for a charity, please do get in touch! Call us on 0800 0124278 or check out our website https://www.communityfostercare.co.uk/'>https://www.communityfostercare.co.uk/

We asked Maggie, what is the best and hardest part of fostering, what is fostering teenagers like, what's it like being a single foster carer, why she wanted to foster in the first place, how does trauma show up day to day for foster children, how to identify triggers, how she found the fostering assessment process, if she had any preconceptions about fostering, why she chose to foster with Community Foster Care and what her favourite thing about fostering with us is.

Visit https://www.communityfostercare.co.uk/'>https://www.communityfostercare.co.uk/

video by Hannah Reynolds