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Find out More About Fostering in Merrie Gardens

We are recruiting foster carers in Merrie Gardens and surrounding areas including: Portsmouth, Southampton, Eastleigh, Worthing, Basingstoke, Hove, Brighton and Hove, Guildford, Woking, Crawley, Lake, Landguard Manor, Ninham, Lower Hyde & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Merrie Gardens

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 Merrie Gardens 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 take care of the child relies on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can range from one night to years, or till the child is an adult.

You may have the ability to work as well as foster . Whether you can relies on the child's situations as well as the fostering solution you put on. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering firm.

You do not need to have your house, but generally, you'll need to have a spare bedroom.

Prior to you can foster you need to pass an evaluation to inspect that you have the ability to take care of a child. You will certainly not be evaluated on your age, ethnicity, gender, marriage status, religion or sexual orientation.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Merrie Gardens. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have actually assisted to position 100's of carers across the UK as well as have over ten years of experience, which suggests we can provide you the ideal feasible assistance required on your journey to assist provide a safe as well as safe house to youngsters as well as youths in care.

Candidates will certainly be evaluated, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an knowledgeable foster carer aiming to move fostering companies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering firm, examining capacities, area as well as experience. We build relationships between carers as well as team, as well as you'll have an knowledgeable expert available to assist 24 hrs a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly always prioritise the safety and security as well as welfare of the children as well as youths in care, by only selecting to deal with trusted Fostering Agencies as well as the training as well as assistance we provide to potential foster carers. To attain this, we follow 6 core values:

  • 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 ending up being foster carers.

We urgently need more foster carers in Merrie Gardens and surrounding areas such as Lake, Landguard Manor, Ninham, Lower Hyde, Sandown, Queens Bower, Apse Heath, Alverstone, Winford, Alverstone Garden Village.

Every one of our foster carers to-be receive extensive foster training details as well as assistance so that they can provide a first-class foster care solution as well as make a actual difference to a child or young person in need. We additionally work to connect our area of foster carers together - if you determine to be a foster moms and dad you will certainly have the chance to fulfill with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales as well as discover from their experience.

Even after you have actually taken on a foster child or young person, you will certainly have the complete assistance of our expert team that will certainly get on hand, 24 hrs a day, to answer any concerns you may have.

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

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Merrie Gardens, Portsmouth, Southampton, Eastleigh, Worthing, Basingstoke, Hove, Brighton and Hove, Guildford, Woking, Crawley 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.