Hello I'm Arif. I'm a foster carer for Merton. We've been fostering for 29 years.
Hi I'm Lynne, and our approval is for two children and one respite, and our personal preference is teenagers.
Well, over the many years we've done many different kinds of fostering.
We've fostered short-term, long-term, respite, babies, mother and babies, toddlers - we do teenagers at the moment.
Special needs. Special needs, respite. Respite, yeah. Merton has been very good to us in all the support we've wanted.
Merton also offer a fabulous training programme to help all foster carers as well.
We've continued fostering because of the enjoyment that we've had through our lives, fostering children.
Watching them develop, watching them achieve things - which is something we've always enjoyed doing with all children, our own children as well, to see them grow up and achieve goals that they set for themselves, and we like to see all children do the same.
We've always supported the children to achieve to the best of their ability, and to aspire to higher things.
Yeah and that's very rewarding for us to see them achieve those.
You know there's many children that we've fostered, as I said 80 or 100 children, and so many have gone on to do so many good things.
Some have even got into fostering themselves, or trained to be foster carers and social workers.
So that's the rewards, you know, to see them achieve in life. And they also come back to us don't they.
Yes many times. They still call us, they phone us often, to ask our advice, and we were always there for them.
The door’s never closed. Never closed.
Well, if you're interested in fostering please come along to one of our information events, or contact us.
Give us a call. Get that ball rolling.