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 Hockley Heath 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 care for the youngster relies on the sort of foster caretreatment. It can range from one night to several years, or until the youngster is an grown-up.
You may be able to work and also foster . Whether you can relies on the youngster's situations and also the fostering service you use to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering company.
You do not require to possess your house, but generally, you'll require to have a extra room.
Before you can foster you need to pass an analysis to examine that you're able to care for a youngster. You will certainly not be examined on your age, ethnicity, gender, marriage status, religious beliefs or sex-related orientation.
We have assisted to put 100's of carers throughout the UK and also have over 10 years of experience, which suggests we can provide you the most effective feasible assistance required on your journey to help provide a secure and also secure house to children and also youngsters in care.
Candidates will certainly be examined, whether it's your initial 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 ideal fostering company, examining capacities, location and also experience. We construct relationships in between carers and also staff, and also you'll have an knowledgeable professional accessible to help 24 hr a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly always prioritise the safety and security and also well-being of the children and also youngsters in care, by only choosing to collaborate with reliable Fostering Agencies as well as the training and also assistance we provide to potential foster carers. To accomplish this, we stick to six core worths:
We support every one of our potential foster parents in their journey to ending up being foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Hockley Heath and surrounding areas such as Nuthurst, Box Trees, Lapworth, Packwood, Packwood Gullet, Illshaw Heath, Kemps Green, Dorridge, Warings Green, Darley Green.
Every one of our foster carers to-be receive extensive foster training details and also assistance to ensure that they can provide a superior foster care service and also make a real difference to a youngster or young individual in need. We additionally function to connect our area of foster carers together - if you determine to be a foster parent you will certainly have the chance to meet our existing carers, hear their foster care tales and also gain from their experience.
Also after you have taken on a foster youngster or young individual, you will certainly have the full assistance of our professional team that will certainly be on hand, 24 hr a day, to respond to any type of concerns you may have.
If you live in Hockley Heath and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Hockley Heath or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Hockley Heath please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Hockley Heath, Solihull, Redditch, Birmingham, Coventry, West Bromwich, Dudley, Nuneaton, Walsall, Tamworth, Worcester and across the West Midlands.
If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.