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Find out More About Fostering in Shepherds Gate

We are recruiting foster carers in Shepherds Gate and surrounding areas including: Peterborough, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Bedford, Ipswich, Leicester, Northampton, Stevenage, Nottingham, Balsam Field, Tilney All Saints, Tilney High End, South Green & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Shepherds Gate

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 Shepherds Gate 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

How much time you take care of the youngster relies on the sort of foster caretreatment. It can range from one evening to years, or up until the youngster is an grown-up.

You may be able to foster and also work. Whether you can relies on the youngster's conditions and also the fostering service you put on. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering firm.

You do not need to own your home, yet typically, you'll need to have a spare bed room.

Prior to you can foster you need to pass an analysis to check that you have the ability to take care of a youngster. You will certainly not be analyzed on your age, ethnic background, sex, marital condition, religious beliefs or sexual preference.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Shepherds Gate. Can you help?

Why Choose Us

The Best Fostering Experience

We have actually aided to place 100's of carers across the UK and also have over one decade of experience, which indicates we can provide you the very best feasible assistance required on your journey to help supply a safe and secure and also risk-free home to children and also youths in care.

Applicants will certainly be analyzed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an knowledgeable foster carer wanting to move fostering agencies. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the appropriate fostering firm, analyzing capacities, place and also experience. We construct partnerships in between carers and also team, and also you'll have an knowledgeable specialist on hand to help 24 hrs a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will certainly constantly prioritise the security and also well-being of the young adults and also youths in care, by just picking to work with credible Fostering Agencies along with the training and also assistance we supply to potential foster carers. To attain this, we comply with 6 core values:

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

Fostering Support

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 Shepherds Gate and surrounding areas such as Balsam Field, Tilney All Saints, Tilney High End, South Green, Terrington St Clement, Emorsgate, Church Field, Orange Row, Eau Brink, Bellmount.

Every one of our foster carers to-be obtain comprehensive foster training details and also assistance so that they can supply a superior foster care service and also make a actual distinction to a youngster or young individual in need. We additionally work to attach our community of foster carers together - if you determine to be a foster parent you will certainly have the chance to satisfy with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales and also pick up from their experience.

Also after you have actually taken on a foster youngster or young individual, you will certainly have the complete assistance of our specialist group that will certainly be on hand, 24 hrs a day, to respond to any concerns you may have.

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

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Shepherds Gate, Peterborough, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Bedford, Ipswich, Leicester, Northampton, Stevenage, Nottingham and across the East of England.

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