We are recruiting foster carers in Lewson Street and surrounding areas including: Gillingham, Maidstone, Chatham, Southend-on-Sea, Rayleigh, Basildon, Dartford, Chelmsford, Hastings, Colchester, Tickham, Norton Ash, Loyterton, Deerton Street & 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 Lewson Street 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 care for the youngster depends upon the kind of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to several years, or up until the youngster is an grown-up.
You might be able to foster and work. Whether you can depends upon the youngster's conditions and the fostering service you use to. This can be your local council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not require to own your house, yet typically, you'll require to have a extra bed room.
Prior to you can foster you need to pass an assessment to examine that you're able to care for a youngster. You will not be assessed on your age, ethnic background, sex, marriage standing, faith or sex-related positioning.
We have assisted to place 100's of carers throughout the UK and have more than one decade of experience, which suggests we can offer you the very best feasible support required on your journey to assist provide a secure and protected house to children and youngsters in treatment.
Applicants will be assessed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer seeking to transfer fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering agency, assessing abilities, place and experience. We develop relationships between carers and team, and you'll have an skilled professional on hand to assist 24-hour a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will always prioritise the security and welfare of the youngsters and youngsters in treatment, by only selecting to work with trustworthy Fostering Agencies in addition to the training and support we provide to prospective foster carers. To attain this, we stick to 6 core worths:
We support every one of our potential foster moms and dads in their journey to becoming foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Lewson Street and surrounding areas such as Tickham, Norton Ash, Loyterton, Deerton Street, Cellarhill, Teynham, Bogle, Barrow Green, Lynsted, Teynham Street.
Every one of our foster carers to-be get considerable foster training information and support so that they can provide a top-notch foster treatment service and make a real difference to a youngster or young adult in need. We likewise work to connect our neighborhood of foster carers together - if you make a decision to be a foster parent you will have the chance to consult with our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and pick up from their experience.
Also after you have tackled a foster youngster or young adult, you will have the full support of our professional team that will be on hand, 24-hour a day, to address any type of inquiries you might have.
If you live in Lewson Street and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Lewson Street or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Lewson Street please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Lewson Street, Gillingham, Maidstone, Chatham, Southend-on-Sea, Rayleigh, Basildon, Dartford, Chelmsford, Hastings, Colchester 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.