We are recruiting foster carers in Basted and surrounding areas including: Maidstone, Chatham, Dartford, Gillingham, Basildon, London, Crawley, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Hastings, Claygate Cross, Crouch, Ightham, Borough Green & 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 Basted 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:
For how long you take care of the child relies on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to several years, or up until the child is an adult.
You might have the ability to work and also foster . Whether you can relies on the child's scenarios and also the fostering service you put on. This can be your regional council or an independent fostering company.
You do not need to own your home, but normally, you'll need to have a extra bed room.
Prior to you can foster you must pass an analysis to examine that you have the ability to take care of a child. You will not be evaluated on your age, ethnicity, gender, marriage standing, religious beliefs or sex-related alignment.
We have helped to put 100's of carers throughout the UK and also have more than 10 years of experience, which suggests we can use you the finest feasible assistance required on your trip to aid give a safe and also protected home to youngsters and also youths in care.
Applicants will be evaluated, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer looking to transfer fostering companies. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the ideal fostering company, assessing capabilities, area and also experience. We develop connections in between carers and also personnel, and also you'll have an skilled expert accessible to aid 24 hours a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will always prioritise the safety and also welfare of the children and also youths in care, by only picking to deal with reliable Fostering Agencies in addition to the training and also assistance we give to prospective foster carers. To attain this, we stick to 6 core values:
We support all of our potential foster moms and dads in their trip to coming to be foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Basted and surrounding areas such as Claygate Cross, Crouch, Ightham, Borough Green, Platt, Ightham Common, Yopps Green, Oldbury, Plaxtol, Ivy Hatch.
Every one of our foster carers to-be receive comprehensive foster training information and also assistance to ensure that they can give a top-notch foster care service and also make a real difference to a child or young person in need. We additionally function to link our neighborhood of foster carers with each other - if you decide to be a foster parent you will have the possibility to fulfill with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales and also learn from their experience.
Even after you have handled a foster child or young person, you will have the complete assistance of our expert group who will be on hand, 24 hours a day, to address any kind of concerns you might have.
If you live in Basted and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Basted or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Basted please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Basted, Maidstone, Chatham, Dartford, Gillingham, Basildon, London, Crawley, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Hastings and across the South East.
If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.