We are recruiting foster carers in Dungeness and surrounding areas including: Hastings, Maidstone, Eastbourne, Gillingham, Chatham, Southend-on-Sea, Dartford, Rayleigh, Brighton and Hove, Basildon, Lydd-on-Sea, Lade, Greatstone-on-Sea, Lydd & 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 Dungeness 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 care for the child depends on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one evening to years, or up until the child is an adult.
You may have the ability to foster and also function. Whether you can depends on the child's conditions and also the fostering solution you put on. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not need to own your house, but normally, you'll need to have a extra bedroom.
Prior to you can foster you need to pass an assessment to examine that you have the ability to care for a child. You will not be examined on your age, ethnic background, sex, marital condition, religion or sexual preference.
We have helped to place 100's of carers throughout the UK and also have more than 10 years of experience, which suggests we can provide you the ideal possible assistance needed on your trip to help provide a safe and secure and also risk-free house to youngsters and also youths in treatment.
Candidates will be examined, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an knowledgeable foster carer looking to move fostering firms. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the right fostering agency, examining capabilities, area and also experience. We develop connections between carers and also team, and also you'll have an knowledgeable expert available to help 1 day a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will always prioritise the safety and security and also welfare of the youngsters and also youths in treatment, by only selecting to collaborate with respectable Fostering Agencies as well as the training and also assistance we provide to potential foster carers. To achieve this, we follow six core worths:
We support all of our potential foster parents in their trip to ending up being foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Dungeness and surrounding areas such as Lydd-on-Sea, Lade, Greatstone-on-Sea, Lydd, Littlestone-on-Sea, New Romney, Old Romney, St Marys Bay, Jurys Gap, St Mary in the Marsh.
Every one of our foster carers to-be get comprehensive foster training information and also assistance to ensure that they can provide a first-rate foster treatment solution and also make a actual difference to a child or young adult in need. We additionally function to link our area of foster carers together - if you choose to be a foster parent you will have the chance to consult with our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and also gain from their experience.
Also after you have handled a foster child or young adult, you will have the complete assistance of our expert group who will get on hand, 1 day a day, to respond to any kind of inquiries you may have.
If you live in Dungeness and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Dungeness or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Dungeness please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Dungeness, Hastings, Maidstone, Eastbourne, Gillingham, Chatham, Southend-on-Sea, Dartford, Rayleigh, Brighton and Hove, Basildon 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.