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Find out More About Fostering in Selly Oak

We are recruiting foster carers in Selly Oak and surrounding areas including: Birmingham, West Bromwich, Solihull, Dudley, Redditch, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, Coventry, Worcester, Griffins Hill, Bournville, Lodge Hill, Weoley Castle & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Selly Oak

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 Selly Oak 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

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

You might be able to foster as well as work. Whether you can relies on the youngster's scenarios as well as the fostering solution you put on. This can be your local council or an independent fostering firm.

You do not need to have your residence, but generally, you'll need to have a extra bed room.

Prior to you can foster you should pass an evaluation to examine that you're able to take care of a youngster. You will not be assessed on your age, ethnic culture, gender, marital standing, religion or sexual alignment.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Selly Oak. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have helped to place 100's of carers across the UK as well as have more than one decade of experience, which suggests we can use you the most effective feasible assistance needed on your trip to help give a protected as well as risk-free residence to youngsters as well as youths in care.

Applicants will be assessed, whether it's your initial time as a foster carer or if you're an experienced foster carer seeking to move fostering companies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering firm, assessing capacities, area as well as experience. We construct relationships in between carers as well as team, as well as you'll have an experienced professional handy to help 24-hour a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will constantly prioritise the safety as well as welfare of the young adults as well as youths in care, by just selecting to collaborate with reputable Fostering Agencies along with the training as well as assistance we give to potential foster carers. To achieve this, we abide by 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 trip to ending up being foster carers.

We urgently need more foster carers in Selly Oak and surrounding areas such as Griffins Hill, Bournville, Lodge Hill, Weoley Castle, Selly Park, Bournbrook, Ten Acres, Cotteridge, Shenley Fields, Woodcock Hill.

All of our foster carers to-be receive extensive foster training information as well as assistance so that they can give a first-rate foster care solution as well as make a actual difference to a youngster or young adult in need. We also work to attach our neighborhood of foster carers with each other - if you determine to be a foster moms and dad you will have the chance to satisfy with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales as well as gain from their experience.

Also after you have handled a foster youngster or young adult, you will have the full assistance of our professional group who will get on hand, 24-hour a day, to answer any type of questions you might have.

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

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Selly Oak, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Solihull, Dudley, Redditch, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, Coventry, Worcester and across the West Midlands.

If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.