We are recruiting foster carers in Highgate and surrounding areas including: Crawley, Brighton and Hove, Hove, Maidstone, Eastbourne, Worthing, Dartford, Guildford, Hastings, Chatham, Tompsets Bank, Forest Row, Quabrook, Ashurst Wood & 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 Highgate 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 much time you look after the youngster depends on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one night to years, or until the youngster is an adult.
You might have the ability to foster and function. Whether you can depends on the youngster's situations and the fostering service you put on. This can be your local council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not require to have your home, yet typically, you'll require to have a extra bed room.
Before you can foster you need to pass an assessment to inspect that you're able to look after a youngster. You will certainly not be assessed on your age, ethnic background, sex, marriage standing, faith or sexual preference.
We have assisted to position 100's of carers throughout the UK and have over ten years of experience, which indicates we can provide you the ideal feasible support needed on your trip to assist offer a protected and safe home to children and youths in care.
Candidates will certainly be assessed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer seeking to move fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering agency, assessing capabilities, location and experience. We construct partnerships in between carers and team, and you'll have an skilled specialist handy to assist 24 hr a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly always prioritise the safety and security and well-being of the children and youths in care, by only choosing to function with respectable Fostering Agencies as well as the training and support we offer to potential foster carers. To accomplish this, we abide by six core worths:
We support all of our prospective foster parents in their trip to becoming foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Highgate and surrounding areas such as Tompsets Bank, Forest Row, Quabrook, Ashurst Wood, Wych Cross, Colemans Hatch, Newbridge, Upper Hartfield, Marsh Green, Sunnyside.
Every one of our foster carers to-be obtain considerable foster training info and support to make sure that they can offer a first-rate foster care service and make a real difference to a youngster or young person in need. We additionally function to attach our neighborhood of foster carers together - if you choose to be a foster parent you will certainly have the opportunity to meet with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales and learn from their experience.
Even after you have tackled a foster youngster or young person, you will certainly have the full support of our specialist group who will certainly be on hand, 24 hr a day, to answer any type of concerns you might have.
If you live in Highgate and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Highgate or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Highgate please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Highgate, Crawley, Brighton and Hove, Hove, Maidstone, Eastbourne, Worthing, Dartford, Guildford, Hastings, Chatham 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.