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Find out More About Fostering in Leigh-on-Sea

We are recruiting foster carers in Leigh-on-Sea and surrounding areas including: Southend-on-Sea, Rayleigh, Basildon, Chatham, Gillingham, Chelmsford, Dartford, Maidstone, Colchester, Harlow, Chalkwell, Westcliff-on-Sea, Eastwood, Hadleigh & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Leigh-on-Sea

Find out if fostering is right for you and your family by booking a quick informal chat with a fostering expert.

Could You Foster?

* All our foster carers in the Leigh-on-Sea area are paid above the Fostering Network Payment Guidelines.

WHO CAN BE A FOSTER PARENT?

Being a foster parent means caring for a child as part of your family. To become a parent you need to be:

  • at least 21 years old
  • a UK resident or have indefinite leave to remain
  • able to take care of a child or young person, often on a full-time basis

For how long you look after the youngster depends on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one evening to several years, or up until the youngster is an adult.

You might be able to work as well as foster . Whether you can depends on the youngster's circumstances as well as the fostering service you put on. This can be your local council or an independent fostering firm.

You do not require to have your residence, however generally, you'll require to have a extra bed room.

Prior to you can foster you must pass an evaluation to check that you're able to look after a youngster. You will not be examined on your age, ethnic culture, gender, marriage condition, religious beliefs or sexual preference.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Leigh-on-Sea. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have helped to place 100's of carers throughout the UK as well as have over 10 years of experience, which means we can offer you the most effective possible assistance required on your journey to help supply a risk-free as well as safe residence to youngsters as well as youngsters in care.

Applicants will be examined, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer aiming to transfer fostering firms. We use our years of experience to match you with the ideal fostering firm, evaluating capacities, location as well as experience. We construct connections between carers as well as staff, as well as you'll have an skilled professional handy to help 24 hours a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will constantly prioritise the safety as well as welfare of the children as well as youngsters in care, by just picking to collaborate with trusted Fostering Agencies in addition to the training as well as assistance we supply to potential foster carers. To accomplish this, we follow six core worths:

  • Making a Difference
  • Prioritising Safeguarding
  • Championing Care Leavers 
  • Providing Support
  • Advocacy
  • Supporting Staff

Fostering Support

We assist all of our possible foster parents in their journey to coming to be foster carers.

We urgently need more foster carers in Leigh-on-Sea and surrounding areas such as Chalkwell, Westcliff-on-Sea, Eastwood, Hadleigh, Newlands, Leigh Beck, Daws Heath, Sunken Marsh, Clifftown, Prittlewell.

All of our foster carers to-be get substantial foster training details as well as assistance so that they can supply a superior foster care service as well as make a actual difference to a youngster or young adult in need. We also function to connect our neighborhood of foster carers with each other - if you choose to be a foster moms and dad you will have the chance to meet with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales as well as find out from their experience.

Also after you have handled a foster youngster or young adult, you will have the complete assistance of our professional group that will be on hand, 24 hours a day, to answer any type of inquiries you might have.

If you live in Leigh-on-Sea and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Leigh-on-Sea or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Leigh-on-Sea please complete the form near the top of this page.

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Rayleigh, Basildon, Chatham, Gillingham, Chelmsford, Dartford, Maidstone, Colchester, Harlow and across the East of England.

If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.