We are recruiting foster carers in Lower Upnor and surrounding areas including: Chatham, Gillingham, Maidstone, Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Rayleigh, Dartford, Chelmsford, London, Harlow, Upper Upnor, Chattenden, Broad Street, Noke 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 Lower Upnor 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 care for the child depends upon the sort of foster caretreatment. It can range from one night to years, or until the child is an grown-up.
You may be able to foster as well as work. Whether you can depends upon the child's situations as well as the fostering service you apply to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not require to own your residence, but normally, you'll require to have a spare room.
Prior to you can foster you have to pass an assessment to examine that you have the ability to care for a child. You will not be examined on your age, ethnicity, sex, marriage status, religion or sexual preference.
We have actually assisted to place 100's of carers across the UK as well as have over 10 years of experience, which means we can provide you the most effective feasible assistance needed on your journey to assist offer a risk-free as well as safe and secure residence to children as well as youths 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 looking to move fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the right fostering agency, analyzing capacities, place as well as experience. We develop relationships in between carers as well as personnel, as well as you'll have an skilled expert available to assist 1 day a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will constantly prioritise the safety as well as well-being of the youngsters as well as youths in care, by only picking to work with respectable Fostering Agencies along with the training as well as assistance we offer to potential foster carers. To attain this, we abide by six core values:
We support every one of our prospective foster moms and dads in their journey to coming to be foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Lower Upnor and surrounding areas such as Upper Upnor, Chattenden, Broad Street, Noke Street, Wainscott, Brompton, Hoo St Werburgh, Frindsbury, Chatham, Rochester.
Every one of our foster carers to-be receive substantial foster training info as well as assistance so that they can offer a excellent foster care service as well as make a genuine difference to a child or young adult in need. We additionally work to link our area of foster carers together - if you decide to be a foster parent you will have the opportunity to meet our existing carers, hear their foster care stories as well as pick up from their experience.
Even after you have actually tackled a foster child or young adult, you will have the complete assistance of our expert group who will get on hand, 1 day a day, to address any kind of questions you may have.
If you live in Lower Upnor and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Lower Upnor or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Lower Upnor please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Lower Upnor, Chatham, Gillingham, Maidstone, Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Rayleigh, Dartford, 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.