Isabella and William share their experience of becoming a foster family.
Video transcript - William and Isabella
We started (fostering) in 2018.
We got our first child on Halloween night.
It was very sudden, like, we went ‘trick or treating’ and then we came home to meet the child. You didn’t know if they’d be scared of you or how they would act.
It was also quite hard because it was during lockdown, so we had no school to have like a little break from. So it’s a lot easier now because when we go to school it’s a bit of a break.
I remember sitting down and just reading to a child for like hours because that’s the only way that they would communicate.
Find someone you can tell everything to, someone you trust, and like, you will struggle but you just need to talk, and, especially with your parents as well, talk about what they’re doing, how you’re struggling and stuff. Seeing them hopefully go on to a family that they will stay with and be happy and grow up with.
