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Find out More About Fostering in Lower Cokeham

We are recruiting foster carers in Lower Cokeham and surrounding areas including: Worthing, Hove, Brighton and Hove, Crawley, Eastbourne, Guildford, Portsmouth, Woking, Hastings, Bracknell, Upper Cokeham, Sompting, Lancing, Sompting Abbotts & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Lower Cokeham

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 Lower Cokeham 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

How long you take care of the youngster relies on the sort of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one night to many years, or up until the youngster is an grown-up.

You may be able to foster and also work. Whether you can relies on the youngster's conditions and also the fostering service you apply to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering agency.

You do not need to possess your home, but usually, you'll need to have a extra room.

Prior to you can foster you have to pass an assessment to examine that you're able to take care of a youngster. You will certainly not be assessed on your age, ethnic background, sex, marriage status, religious beliefs or sexual orientation.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Lower Cokeham. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have actually aided to position 100's of carers throughout the UK and also have over 10 years of experience, which indicates we can supply you the very best feasible assistance needed on your journey to help give a risk-free and also secure home to children and also young people in treatment.

Applicants will certainly be assessed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer looking to move fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering agency, examining capacities, location and also experience. We build partnerships in between carers and also staff, and also you'll have an skilled expert accessible to help 24 hrs a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly constantly prioritise the safety and also welfare of the young adults and also young people in treatment, by only choosing to collaborate with respectable Fostering Agencies along with the training and also assistance we give to potential foster carers. To achieve this, we comply with 6 core worths:

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

Fostering Support

We support every one of our prospective foster parents in their journey to coming to be foster carers.

We urgently need more foster carers in Lower Cokeham and surrounding areas such as Upper Cokeham, Sompting, Lancing, Sompting Abbotts, East Worthing, South Lancing, North Lancing, Broadwater, Worthing, Beggars Bush.

All of our foster carers to-be obtain substantial foster training details and also assistance to make sure that they can give a first-class foster treatment service and also make a real distinction to a youngster or young adult in need. We additionally work to connect our area of foster carers together - if you make a decision to be a foster parent you will certainly have the possibility to meet our existing carers, hear their foster treatment stories and also gain from their experience.

Even after you have actually taken on a foster youngster or young adult, you will certainly have the complete assistance of our expert team that will certainly get on hand, 24 hrs a day, to respond to any type of inquiries you may have.

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

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Lower Cokeham, Worthing, Hove, Brighton and Hove, Crawley, Eastbourne, Guildford, Portsmouth, Woking, Hastings, Bracknell 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.