There are some basic requirements, for example:
are you aged 21 yrs or olderphysically and mentally fithave a positive approach to looking after vulnerable young peoplehave a spare room available.

Experience of parenting or caring for children is desirable but not essential.

Foster Carers are ordinary people of all ages, from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds.

Ideally, foster carers should have some life experience to draw on to help support and nurture the child they are looking after—empathy and understanding are key characteristics in foster carers.

Foster carers can be married or living together, single, divorced, widowed, in a single sex relationship, be working or unemployed, own a home or rent, have birth children or not.

If you are on benefits, you will not lose them.

Any money that you get for looking after the children is an allowance that is paid to you to be spent on the child. It is not classed as a 'wage' so your benefits are safe.

If you have a spare bedroom and time in your life to dedicate to a child;

Fostering Handbook

Approved foster carers go to:

www.fostercareagent.co.uk

Please consider helping children by applying to become a foster carer
today.

Simply fostering enquiry form

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