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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13th- 26th May is Foster Care Fortnight, the UK’s biggest foster carer recruitment campaign. This year’s theme is #changeafuture. So we’re particularly keen to hear from anyone who could care for older children and teenagers, and really get their futures on the right track.

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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

06 June

Cheshire West & Chester
6pm – Technology Centre, Inward Way, Ellesmere Port. CH65 3EN

12 June

Cheshire East
6pm – Crewe Lifestyle Centre

19 June

Cheshire West & Chester
10am – Dingle Recreation Centre, High Street, Winsford. CW7 2AS

20 June

Cheshire East
10am – Macclesfield Leisure Centre, Macclesfield. SK10 4AF

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What’s New?

Foster4 Roadshow

The Foster4 roadshow is now underway! For the next few days, the Foster4 ad van will be touring Cheshire. First stop is Warrington on Thursday...

23 May 2019 | Uncategorised

Chanel, Alan, Alice*, Ryan and Sean’s...

As part of our Foster Care Fortnight 2019 #changeafuture campaign, we asked 8 care leavers to tell us how their foster carers had a positive...

22 May 2019 | Uncategorised

Naomi’s Story

As part of our Foster Care Fortnight 2019 #changeafuture campaign, we asked 8 care leavers to tell us how their foster carers had a positive...

16 May 2019 | Interviews

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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 Roadshow

Chanel, Alan, Alice*, Ryan and Sean’s...

Naomi’s Story

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