Foster4 – Foster carer recruitment service

2021 could be your
year to foster

If you are over 21, have a spare room and think you could be a foster carer we’d like to hear from you.

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Are you already a foster carer?

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Interested in becoming a foster carer?

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Could you open your door?

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.

Virtual information sessions

Due to the current situation regarding Covid19, all our sessions are run remotely via video conferencing.

Our next session is:

MONDAY 25th JANUARY at 12.30pm

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Our next online virtual Information Session will be on Monday 25th January at 12.30pm. To sign up and reserve your place, click here These sessions...

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2021 could be your year to foster

Are you already a foster carer?

Interested in becoming a foster carer?

Could you open your door?

Sons & Daughters

The Process

Enquiry

Initial Assessment

Application

Skills to Foster

Assessment

Approval

Fostering

Meet our Carers

Virtual information sessions

What’s New?

Fostering life story

Could 2021 be your year to foster?

Virtual Information Session - Monday 25th January at 12.30pm

Enquire Now!

We’re still recruiting!

2021 could be your
year to foster