We are recruiting foster carers in Five Wents and surrounding areas including: Maidstone, Gillingham, Chatham, Dartford, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Rayleigh, Hastings, Crawley, Eastbourne, Warmlake, Langley Heath, Chart Sutton, Chart Corner & 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 Five Wents 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:
Exactly how long you look after the youngster depends upon the kind of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to several years, or till the youngster is an grown-up.
You may be able to foster as well as work. Whether you can depends upon the youngster's conditions as well as the fostering service you put on. This can be your regional council or an independent fostering firm.
You do not require to have your residence, but typically, you'll require to have a spare room.
Prior to you can foster you should pass an assessment to check that you have the ability to look after a youngster. You will certainly not be evaluated on your age, ethnicity, gender, marriage status, religious beliefs or sexual preference.
We have actually aided to position 100's of carers throughout the UK as well as have more than 10 years of experience, which means we can supply you the most effective feasible support required on your journey to assist give a protected as well as risk-free residence to children as well as young people in care.
Candidates will certainly be evaluated, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an knowledgeable foster carer seeking to move fostering agencies. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the best fostering firm, evaluating capabilities, place as well as experience. We build relationships between carers as well as staff, as well as you'll have an knowledgeable expert available to assist 24 hr a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly always prioritise the security as well as welfare of the young adults as well as young people in care, by only choosing to work with reliable Fostering Agencies in addition to the training as well as support we give to prospective foster carers. To achieve this, we stick to 6 core worths:
We assist all of our prospective foster parents in their journey to ending up being foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Five Wents and surrounding areas such as Warmlake, Langley Heath, Chart Sutton, Chart Corner, Langley, Sutton Valence, Chartway Street, Chart Hill, Otham Hole, The Harbour.
All of our foster carers to-be obtain substantial foster training information as well as support to ensure that they can give a excellent foster care service as well as make a real difference to a youngster or young person in need. We additionally work to link our area of foster carers with each other - if you decide to be a foster parent you will certainly have the possibility to meet our existing carers, hear their foster care tales as well as pick up from their experience.
Even after you have actually taken on a foster youngster or young person, you will certainly have the full support of our expert team who will certainly get on hand, 24 hr a day, to answer any type of concerns you may have.
If you live in Five Wents and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Five Wents or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Five Wents please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Five Wents, Maidstone, Gillingham, Chatham, Dartford, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Rayleigh, Hastings, Crawley, Eastbourne 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.