Foster4 – Foster carer recruitment service

October is Sons and Daughters Month celebrating the brilliant contribution the children of foster carers make to foster care

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Sons & Daughters

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.

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What’s New?

Gavin Matthews speaks to the daughter of a foster carer who is now a carer herself

Sons & Daughters Month: Dee Radio interview

Dayna lives in Winsford, near Northwich and was 15 years old when her parents decided to foster. Now grown up and married, she was inspired...

14 Oct 2020 | Interviews

Sons & Daughters Month: BBC Merseyside...

As part of Sons and Daughters month, which celebrates the vital contribution the children of foster carers make to fostering, carer Michelle and her daughters...

13 Oct 2020 | Interviews

Celebrating Sons & Daughters Month

Every October, we nationally recognise the important role foster carer’s sons and daughters play in welcoming fostered children into their families. Read some of the...

1 Oct 2020 | Interviews

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