Foster4 – Foster carer recruitment service

For children.
For carers.
For support.

Become a registered foster carer with your Local Authority. We aim to have you approved within 4 months.

Are you already a foster carer?

Learn about transferring to Foster4

Interested in becoming a foster carer?

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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 Events

24 April

Cheshire East
10am – Holmes Chapel Community Centre, Station Road, CW4 8AA

24 April

Cheshire West & Chester
10am – Technology Centre, Inward Drive, Ellesmere Port, CH65 3EN

25 April

Halton
6pm – Castlefields Community Centre, Runcorn

21 May

Halton
10am – Halton Stadium, Lower House Lane, Widnes. WA8 7DZ

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What’s New?

Foster4 is 1!

We're celebrating our first birthday today. It's been exactly one year since Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington Councils came together to...

3 Apr 2019 | News

Refer a friend and WIN a...

The folk at Weee Charity have kindly donated a £500 Centre Parcs voucher to Foster4. We're offering all of our existing foster carers the chance...

3 Apr 2019 | News

Cracking Easter Egg Competition

Easter Egg Competition 2019 We've got a cracking competition for all of our fostering families. We're asking all of the children in our care, and...

13 Mar 2019 | Uncategorised

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For children. For carers. For support.

Are you already a foster carer?

Interested in becoming a foster carer?

The Process

Enquiry

Initial Assessment

Application

Skills to Foster

Assessment

Approval

Fostering

Meet our Carers

Upcoming Events

What’s New?

Foster4 is 1!

Refer a friend and WIN a...

Cracking Easter Egg Competition

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For children.
For carers.
For support.