We are recruiting foster carers in Athelington and surrounding areas including: Ipswich, Norwich, Colchester, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Harlow, Peterborough, Horham, Fingal Street, Denham Corner, Newtown & more.
Find out if fostering is right for you and your family by booking a quick informal chat with a fostering expert.
* All our foster carers in the Athelington area are paid above the Fostering Network Payment Guidelines.
Being a foster parent means caring for a child as part of your family. To become a parent you need to be:
How much time you look after the child relies on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to many years, or up until the child is an adult.
You might be able to foster and function. Whether you can relies on the child's conditions and the fostering service you apply to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering company.
You do not need to have your house, yet typically, you'll need to have a spare room.
Before you can foster you should pass an assessment to examine that you're able to look after a child. You will not be examined on your age, ethnic culture, gender, marriage condition, faith or sex-related positioning.
We have helped to position 100's of carers throughout the UK and have more than one decade of experience, which suggests we can provide you the most effective possible assistance required on your trip to help offer a risk-free and secure house to youngsters and youths in care.
Applicants will be examined, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer seeking to move fostering companies. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the right fostering company, assessing abilities, location and experience. We develop partnerships between carers and team, and you'll have an skilled expert on hand to help 24-hour a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will constantly prioritise the security and well-being of the young adults and youths in care, by only picking to collaborate with trusted Fostering Agencies in addition to the training and assistance we offer to potential foster carers. To accomplish this, we stick to 6 core values:
We assist all of our potential foster parents in their trip to coming to be foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Athelington and surrounding areas such as Horham, Fingal Street, Denham Corner, Newtown, Redlingfield, Southolt, Stanway Green, Wootten Green, Worlingworth, Wilby.
All of our foster carers to-be receive considerable foster training details and assistance to ensure that they can offer a superior foster care service and make a real distinction to a child or young adult in need. We additionally function to connect our neighborhood of foster carers with each other - if you determine to be a foster parent you will have the opportunity to meet our existing carers, hear their foster care stories and learn from their experience.
Even after you have taken on a foster child or young adult, you will have the full assistance of our expert team who will be on hand, 24-hour a day, to respond to any type of questions you might have.
If you live in Athelington and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Athelington or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Athelington please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Athelington, Ipswich, Norwich, Colchester, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Harlow, Peterborough and across the East of England.
If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.