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Find out More About Fostering in Shellingford

We are recruiting foster carers in Shellingford and surrounding areas including: Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke, High Wycombe, Bracknell, Slough, Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Eastleigh, Worcester, Hatford, Stanford in the Vale, Fernham, Baulking & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Shellingford

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 Shellingford 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 look after the youngster relies on the kind of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to several years, or until the youngster is an adult.

You may have the ability to work and also foster . Whether you can relies on the youngster's circumstances and also the fostering solution you apply to. This can be your regional council or an independent fostering agency.

You do not need to have your house, however typically, you'll need to have a spare room.

Before you can foster you have to pass an evaluation to examine that you're able to look after a youngster. You will certainly not be analyzed on your age, ethnic background, sex, marriage condition, religious beliefs or sexual preference.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Shellingford. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have actually helped to put 100's of carers across the UK and also have over one decade of experience, which indicates we can supply you the ideal feasible assistance required on your journey to assist give a secure and also secure house to children and also youngsters in care.

Candidates will certainly be analyzed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an experienced foster carer wanting to move fostering firms. We use our years of experience to match you with the right fostering agency, assessing capacities, place and also experience. We develop partnerships in between carers and also personnel, and also you'll have an experienced expert available to assist 24 hr a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly always prioritise the safety and security and also welfare of the young adults and also youngsters in care, by just choosing to deal with credible Fostering Agencies along with the training and also assistance we give to potential foster carers. To accomplish this, we follow 6 core worths:

  • Making a Difference
  • Prioritising Safeguarding
  • Championing Care Leavers 
  • Providing Support
  • Advocacy
  • Supporting Staff

Fostering Support

We assist every one of our prospective foster moms and dads in their journey to ending up being foster carers.

We urgently need more foster carers in Shellingford and surrounding areas such as Hatford, Stanford in the Vale, Fernham, Baulking, Gainfield, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, Littleworth, Goosey, Uffington.

Every one of our foster carers to-be get comprehensive foster training info and also assistance so that they can give a first-class foster care solution and also make a genuine difference to a youngster or young adult in need. We also work to attach our community of foster carers together - if you choose to be a foster moms and dad you will certainly have the possibility to meet with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales and also find out from their experience.

Also after you have actually tackled a foster youngster or young adult, you will certainly have the full assistance of our expert group that will certainly get on hand, 24 hr a day, to respond to any concerns you may have.

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

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Shellingford, Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke, High Wycombe, Bracknell, Slough, Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Eastleigh, Worcester 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.