We are recruiting foster carers in Gillingham and surrounding areas including: Chatham, Maidstone, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Rayleigh, Dartford, Chelmsford, London, Harlow, Hastings, Twydall, Darland, Lower Twydall, Rainham & 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 Gillingham 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:
Just how long you take care of the child depends upon the sort of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one evening to several years, or up until the child is an grown-up.
You may be able to workand foster . Whether you can depends upon the child's circumstances and the fostering service you relate to. This can be your local council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not require to have your residence, yet generally, you'll require to have a spare room.
Prior to you can foster you should pass an evaluation to check that you have the ability to take care of a child. You will certainly not be evaluated on your age, ethnicity, gender, marital condition, faith or sex-related orientation.
We have aided to put 100's of carers across the UK and have over one decade of experience, which implies we can supply you the ideal possible support required on your journey to aid offer a protected and safe residence to youngsters and youths in treatment.
Candidates will certainly be evaluated, whether it's your initial time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer aiming to transfer fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the ideal fostering agency, analyzing abilities, place and experience. We build partnerships between carers and personnel, and you'll have an skilled expert accessible to aid 24 hr a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly constantly prioritise the safety and security and well-being of the children and youths in treatment, by just picking to collaborate with reputable Fostering Agencies as well as the training and support we offer to potential foster carers. To achieve this, we abide by 6 core values:
We assist every one of our prospective foster parents in their journey to coming to be foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Gillingham and surrounding areas such as Twydall, Darland, Lower Twydall, Rainham, Hale, Capstone, Grange, Hempstead, Luton, Wigmore.
All of our foster carers to-be get substantial foster training details and support to make sure that they can offer a top-notch foster treatment service and make a genuine difference to a child or young adult in need. We also function to link our area of foster carers with each other - if you make a decision to be a foster parent you will certainly have the opportunity to meet our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and gain from their experience.
Also after you have tackled a foster child or young adult, you will certainly have the full support of our expert group that will certainly get on hand, 24 hr a day, to address any type of inquiries you may have.
If you live in Gillingham and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Gillingham or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Gillingham please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Gillingham, Chatham, Maidstone, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Rayleigh, Dartford, Chelmsford, London, Harlow, 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.