We are recruiting foster carers in Ightham and surrounding areas including: Maidstone, Dartford, Chatham, Gillingham, Basildon, London, Crawley, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, Oldbury, Basted, Ightham Common, Borough Green & 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 Ightham 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:
The length of time you look after the youngster relies on the sort of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to many years, or until the youngster is an grown-up.
You might be able to workand foster . Whether you can relies on the youngster's situations and the fostering service you apply to. This can be your regional council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not require to own your residence, but typically, you'll require to have a extra bed room.
Prior to you can foster you need to pass an analysis to inspect that you're able to look after a youngster. You will not be analyzed on your age, ethnic background, sex, marital standing, faith or sex-related alignment.
We have helped to put 100's of carers throughout the UK and have over ten years of experience, which indicates we can offer you the most effective possible assistance needed on your journey to aid offer a secure and secure residence to youngsters and youngsters in treatment.
Applicants will be analyzed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an experienced foster carer looking to move fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the ideal fostering agency, assessing capabilities, location and experience. We build connections between carers and staff, and you'll have an experienced expert available to aid 24-hour a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will always prioritise the safety and well-being of the young adults and youngsters in treatment, by just selecting to collaborate with trustworthy Fostering Agencies along with the training and assistance we offer to possible foster carers. To attain this, we follow 6 core worths:
We support every one of our prospective foster moms and dads in their journey to becoming foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Ightham and surrounding areas such as Oldbury, Basted, Ightham Common, Borough Green, Claygate Cross, Styants Bottom, Ivy Hatch, Crouch, Platt, Yopps Green.
Every one of our foster carers to-be get comprehensive foster training information and assistance to ensure that they can offer a superior foster treatment service and make a actual difference to a youngster or young adult in need. We additionally function to link our area of foster carers with each other - if you make a decision to be a foster moms and dad you will have the possibility to fulfill with our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and learn from their experience.
Also after you have tackled a foster youngster or young adult, you will have the complete assistance of our expert team who will get on hand, 24-hour a day, to answer any kind of inquiries you might have.
If you live in Ightham and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Ightham or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Ightham please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Ightham, Maidstone, Dartford, Chatham, Gillingham, Basildon, London, Crawley, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford 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.