KidsFirstFostering.com

Find out More About Fostering in Cottam

We are recruiting foster carers in Cottam and surrounding areas including: Lincoln, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Peterborough, Tamworth, Stoke-on-Trent, Nuneaton, Coates, Rampton, Littleborough, Torksey Lock & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Cottam

Find out if fostering is right for you and your family by booking a quick informal chat with a fostering expert.

Could You Foster?

* All our foster carers in the Cottam area are paid above the Fostering Network Payment Guidelines.

WHO CAN BE A FOSTER PARENT?

Being a foster parent means caring for a child as part of your family. To become a parent you need to be:

  • at least 21 years old
  • a UK resident or have indefinite leave to remain
  • able to take care of a child or young person, often on a full-time basis

For how long you take care of the youngster depends upon the type of foster caretreatment. It can range from one night to years, or up until the youngster is an grown-up.

You might be able to foster as well as work. Whether you can depends upon the youngster's circumstances as well as the fostering service you relate to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering agency.

You do not require to own your house, yet normally, you'll require to have a spare room.

Prior to you can foster you should pass an evaluation to check that you're able to take care of a youngster. You will not be evaluated on your age, ethnicity, sex, marriage standing, religious beliefs or sexual preference.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Cottam. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have helped to place 100's of carers throughout the UK as well as have more than 10 years of experience, which indicates we can provide you the most effective feasible assistance needed on your trip to help give a safe as well as protected house to children as well as youngsters in treatment.

Applicants will be evaluated, whether it's your initial time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer aiming to move fostering companies. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the best fostering agency, assessing capacities, location as well as experience. We construct partnerships in between carers as well as staff, as well as you'll have an skilled professional accessible to help 1 day a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will constantly prioritise the security as well as well-being of the youngsters as well as youngsters in treatment, by only picking to work with trustworthy Fostering Agencies along with the training as well as assistance we give to potential foster carers. To achieve this, we abide by 6 core values:

  • Making a Difference
  • Prioritising Safeguarding
  • Championing Care Leavers 
  • Providing Support
  • Advocacy
  • Supporting Staff

Fostering Support

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 Cottam and surrounding areas such as Coates, Rampton, Littleborough, Torksey Lock, Marton, Brampton, Torksey, Treswell, Church Laneham, Gate Burton.

All of our foster carers to-be obtain considerable foster training info as well as assistance to ensure that they can give a top-notch foster treatment service as well as make a real distinction to a youngster or young person in need. We also work to attach our neighborhood of foster carers together - if you make a decision to be a foster moms and dad you will have the opportunity to meet our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales as well as pick up from their experience.

Also after you have taken on a foster youngster or young person, you will have the complete assistance of our professional team that will get on hand, 1 day a day, to address any kind of inquiries you might have.

If you live in Cottam and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Cottam or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Cottam please complete the form near the top of this page.

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Cottam, Lincoln, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Peterborough, Tamworth, Stoke-on-Trent, Nuneaton and across the East Midlands.

If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.