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Welcoming a child into your home for the first time can bring a mix of , like anxiety and excitement. The foster child or children coming to stay with you may have even emotions. They may be confused, upset and about why they’ve been taken away from home, or worried that they’re afresh with a new foster family so soon after settling in with their previous one.

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Often children in foster care have come from a or abusive family home and their behaviour can be by this. A large part of a foster carer’s job is to prioritise the children’s mental wellbeing and . There are lots of meetings and appointments and visits with families to navigate as a foster carer, these can sometimes cause upset or take a lot of organisation. Fostering isn’t always easy and it is that foster carers look after their own mental health, as well as the mental of the young people they look after.