We are recruiting foster carers in Canterbury and surrounding areas including: Gillingham, Southend-on-Sea, Maidstone, Chatham, Rayleigh, Basildon, Hastings, Dartford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Northgate, St Dunstans, St Stephens, St Martins & 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 Canterbury 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 long you take care of the child depends upon the sort of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one night to years, or up until the child is an adult.
You might have the ability to foster as well as function. Whether you can depends upon the child's conditions as well as the fostering service you put on. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not require to possess your house, but typically, you'll require to have a extra room.
Prior to you can foster you have to pass an assessment to check that you're able to take care of a child. You will certainly not be assessed on your age, ethnic culture, sex, marriage standing, faith or sex-related positioning.
We have assisted to put 100's of carers throughout the UK as well as have over 10 years of experience, which means we can provide you the most effective feasible assistance required on your trip to help provide a protected as well as secure house to youngsters as well as young individuals in care.
Applicants will certainly be assessed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an knowledgeable foster carer seeking to move fostering firms. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the appropriate fostering agency, examining capabilities, location as well as experience. We build connections in between carers as well as personnel, as well as you'll have an knowledgeable specialist available to help 24 hrs a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly constantly prioritise the safety as well as well-being of the youngsters as well as young individuals in care, by only choosing to function with trustworthy Fostering Agencies along with the training as well as assistance we provide to prospective foster carers. To attain this, we adhere to six core values:
We assist every one of our potential foster moms and dads in their trip to becoming foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Canterbury and surrounding areas such as Northgate, St Dunstans, St Stephens, St Martins, Hales Place, Thanington, Harbledown, Rough Common, Scotland Hills, Tyler Hill.
All of our foster carers to-be receive considerable foster training details as well as assistance to ensure that they can provide a excellent foster care service as well as make a genuine difference to a child or young individual in need. We likewise function to attach our community of foster carers with each other - if you determine to be a foster parent you will certainly have the chance to consult with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales as well as pick up from their experience.
Even after you have taken on a foster child or young individual, you will certainly have the full assistance of our specialist group that will certainly get on hand, 24 hrs a day, to address any type of inquiries you might have.
If you live in Canterbury and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Canterbury or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Canterbury please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Canterbury, Gillingham, Southend-on-Sea, Maidstone, Chatham, Rayleigh, Basildon, Hastings, Dartford, Chelmsford, Colchester 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.