We are recruiting foster carers in Lower Higham and surrounding areas including: Chatham, Gillingham, Dartford, Basildon, Maidstone, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, London, Harlow, Church Street, Higham, Gadshill, Cliffe Woods & 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 Lower Higham 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:
How long you take care of the child depends upon the sort of foster caretreatment. It can range from one night to lots of years, or till the child is an adult.
You may have the ability to foster and also work. Whether you can depends upon the child's conditions and also the fostering solution you relate to. This can be your local council or an independent fostering firm.
You do not require to have your house, however generally, you'll require to have a spare bedroom.
Before you can foster you should pass an analysis to inspect that you have the ability to take care of a child. You will certainly not be assessed on your age, ethnic background, gender, marital standing, religion or sexual positioning.
We have aided to place 100's of carers across the UK and also have over ten years of experience, which implies we can provide you the very best possible assistance needed on your journey to aid offer a protected and also risk-free house to children and also youths in treatment.
Candidates will certainly be assessed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer wanting to transfer fostering companies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering firm, evaluating capacities, area and also experience. We develop partnerships between carers and also personnel, and also you'll have an skilled specialist handy to aid 1 day a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly constantly prioritise the security and also welfare of the youngsters and also youths in treatment, by just selecting to collaborate with credible Fostering Agencies in addition to the training and also assistance we offer to possible foster carers. To achieve this, we follow six core worths:
We assist all of our possible foster parents in their journey to coming to be foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Lower Higham and surrounding areas such as Church Street, Higham, Gadshill, Cliffe Woods, Shorne, Noke Street, Shorne Ridgeway, Wainscott, Cooling Street, Upper Ifield.
All of our foster carers to-be receive substantial foster training information and also assistance to ensure that they can offer a excellent foster treatment solution and also make a genuine distinction to a child or young adult in need. We also work to attach our area of foster carers with each other - if you choose to be a foster parent you will certainly have the chance to meet our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and also gain from their experience.
Even after you have tackled a foster child or young adult, you will certainly have the full assistance of our specialist group that will certainly be on hand, 1 day a day, to address any kind of questions you may have.
If you live in Lower Higham and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Lower Higham or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Lower Higham please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Lower Higham, Chatham, Gillingham, Dartford, Basildon, Maidstone, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, London, Harlow 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.