How to become a foster carer

Fostering information

If you feel that fostering could be for you, then please complete our contact form.

You will receive an email reply confirming receipt of your information.

Your information will be assessed by a team member who might contact you to request further information if it will help your enquiry.

If you agree, your details will be passed on to our member Fostering Agencies that are most suitable for you and your family and who have vacancies for Foster Carers in your area.

You will receive comprehensive information from the Fostering Agencies.

You choose who would like to contact you.

On contact from the Fostering Agency(s), the decision is made to start your assessment as a Foster Carer.

Everyone who wants to become a foster carer has to undertake an assessment. The assessment is about exploring your individual skills and experiences which will be as varied as the children that need foster carers.

The assessment also provides you with information about fostering and how fostering will affect you, your family and your friends.

If you have children, it is important that you talk with them at an early stage about being part of a fostering family.

Fostering Handbook

Who can Foster

How to Foster

Foster Carers

Foster Children

Why Fostering.ws

Foster Care FAQs

Approved foster carers go to:

www.fostercareagent.co.uk

Assessment

Timescales

In our experience, Local Authorities take about six months and Independent Fostering Agencies take an average of four months to complete the assessment. However Local Authorities are catching up.

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