Help us find out more about public attitudes to fostering Many local children urgently need safe and loving homes because their birth parents are unable to provide them with this for a variety of reasons. People who provide these homes are known as their foster carers and have the potential to offer the child a brighter future, changing their lives for the better. There are different types of foster care. Most, but not all, types of fostering require carers to have a spare room. Slough Children’s Services Trust is a not-for-profit independent company which works to protect local children and is largely funded through public money. We have some amazing foster parents but we need to recruit more. By taking part in this survey, which should take no more than five, minutes to complete, you are enabling us to do vital market research, in a cost-effective way. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this.How would you describe your attitude to fostering, as a way of helping local children in need?Please selectPositiveNeutralNegativeWhich of the statements below best applies to you?I am/have been fosteredI am/have been a foster carerI know someone who fosters or has done in the pastI know someone who is in foster care or has been in the pastI have no personal connection to fosteringPlease selectWhere do you get your general local information from?Please select as many as apply to you. Social Media Online/Website Newspapers Radio Posters Leaflets Word of Mouth Magazines Community Centres Places of Worship Other What social media channels do you use for local news? What websites do you access for local news? What newspapers do you read for local news? What radio stations do you listen to for local news? What magazines do you read for local news? What other sources of local news do you have? Do you read leaflets which come through your door?Please selectNeverSometimesAlwaysOnly if something about it catches my eyeHave you ever considered fostering?Please selectYesNoPlease describe your situationPlease selectI foster alreadyI'm hoping to foster in the futureI decided against itWhy would you say you haven't considered fostering? I have never been asked I didn't know there was an urgent need It would not be good for my birth children I already work I have too many other commitments Other Please select as many as apply.Please state any other reason you have for not considering fostering. Did you know we welcome enquiries from all types of local people, including single, married, all ethnicities, everyone over 21, members of all the LGBT community and all faith groups?Please selectYesNoDid you know foster carers can work, while fostering?Please selectYesNoSome companies in Slough are considering having foster friendly policies for their staff, where they would give extra time off for appointments and for settling in a child, please state your thoughts on this.Please tick as many statements as apply to you. I think this is a good idea I think this would encourage more people to foster I think more companies should do this I don't have an opinion I don't agree with this Did you know foster carers receive allowances of an average of £20k per child?Please selectYesNoDid you know foster carers receive access to 24/7 support and are given all the right skills and training to care for a child?Please selectYesNoDid you know that children in care can achieve as much as their peers who aren’t in care, with the support of a loving foster family?Please selectYesNoPlease provide any other comments or thoughts.We’d really appreciate it if you could provide us with the following information:Postcode Age BracketPlease select18-3031-4041-5051-6061+If you would be happy to be asked some supplementary questions via email, please leave your email address…
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