We are recruiting foster carers in New Town and surrounding areas including: Reading, Bracknell, Basingstoke, High Wycombe, Slough, Woking, Guildford, Oxford, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Whiteknights, Lower Caversham, The Mount, Reading & 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 New Town 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 child depends on the sort of foster caretreatment. It can vary from one evening to several years, or up until the child is an adult.
You might be able to foster and also function. Whether you can depends on the child's scenarios and also the fostering solution you put on. This can be your local council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not need to possess your home, yet normally, you'll need to have a spare bed room.
Before you can foster you should pass an analysis to examine that you're able to care for a child. You will not be evaluated on your age, ethnic culture, sex, marital condition, religion or sex-related orientation.
We have assisted to put 100's of carers across the UK and also have over 10 years of experience, which indicates we can provide you the most effective feasible support required on your journey to help give a secure and also risk-free home to youngsters and also young people in treatment.
Applicants will be evaluated, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an experienced foster carer seeking to move fostering firms. We use our years of experience to match you with the appropriate fostering agency, assessing abilities, place and also experience. We develop partnerships in between carers and also staff, and also you'll have an experienced specialist handy to help 24 hrs a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will always prioritise the safety and security and also welfare of the children and also young people in treatment, by only picking to deal with trustworthy Fostering Agencies in addition to the training and also support we give to prospective foster carers. To achieve this, we abide by 6 core worths:
We support all of our prospective foster parents in their journey to ending up being foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in New Town and surrounding areas such as Whiteknights, Lower Caversham, The Mount, Reading, Caversham, Coley, Earley, Play Hatch, Hemdean Bottom, Caversham Heights.
Every one of our foster carers to-be receive considerable foster training info and also support to ensure that they can give a superior foster treatment solution and also make a actual difference to a child or young person in need. We additionally function to attach our area of foster carers with each other - if you determine to be a foster moms and dad you will have the opportunity to satisfy with our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and also gain from their experience.
Also after you have tackled a foster child or young person, you will have the complete support of our specialist team that will be on hand, 24 hrs a day, to address any kind of concerns you might have.
If you live in New Town and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in New Town or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in New Town please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in New Town, Reading, Bracknell, Basingstoke, High Wycombe, Slough, Woking, Guildford, Oxford, Watford, Hemel Hempstead 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.