Foster4 – Foster carer recruitment service

We need local people like YOU to nurture, guide and support more teenagers in your local area.

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Are you already a foster carer?

Learn about transferring to Foster4

Interested in becoming a foster carer?

Request an Info Pack

Could you open your door?

The Process

The 7 step process to fostering; a flexible, home- based career.

1

Enquiry

You contact us via the telephone, our web form or by meeting us face to face at an event. We’ll take some basic details from you...

2

Initial Assessment

Once we’ve received your Expression of Interest form, we’ll do some initial checks and one of our social workers will give you a...

3

Application

Before the course begins, the fostering team will send an Application Form out to you, either in the post or via email. You complete...

4

Skills to Foster

Skills to Foster is the 3-day pre-approval training course. It’s a standard course that all foster carers in the UK undertake...

5

Assessment

Once you’ve completed Skills to Foster, you will be allocated an assessing social worker and your formal assessment will begin...

6

Approval

Once your assessment report is completed, you’ll be sent a draft for you to add to/ amend any details that may need tweaking etc...

7

Fostering

Congratulations! Welcome to the fostering family. Your supervising social worker will come out and visit you to do your...

Meet our Carers

View our case studies to find out more about our carers.

Upcoming Info Sessions

Due to the current situation regarding Covid19, we are looking at how we might run these differently.

More info here

What’s New?

Fostering Teenagers – BBC Merseyside Interview

Listen again to our interview with foster carer Debbie

As part of our latest campaign, Foster 4 carer Debbie, from Runcorn, speaks to Tony Snell on his BBC Radio Merseyside breakfast show about fostering...

15 Jul 2020 | Interviews

Read uplifting stories from carers who support teenagers

Our July campaign looks to encourage more local people to be foster carers, in particular to foster older children and teenagers. Many people won’t consider...

13 Jul 2020 | Meet Our Carers

Listen to Foster4 carer Angela, speaking to Jeremy Vine

Foster carer Angela from Runcorn, Cheshire tells Radio 2 presenter, Jeremy Vine, about her experience of fostering and why more than ever, it is such...

23 Jun 2020 | Meet Our Carers

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We need local people like YOU to nurture, guide and support more teenagers in your local area.

Are you already a foster carer?

Interested in becoming a foster carer?

Could you open your door?

The Process

Enquiry

Initial Assessment

Application

Skills to Foster

Assessment

Approval

Fostering

Meet our Carers

Upcoming Info Sessions

What’s New?

Listen again to our interview with foster carer Debbie

Read uplifting stories from carers who support teenagers

Listen to Foster4 carer Angela, speaking to Jeremy Vine

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We’re still recruiting!