We are recruiting foster carers in Shortlands and surrounding areas including: London, Dartford, Crawley, Chatham, Basildon, Maidstone, Watford, Gillingham, Woking, Harlow, Bromley, Bromley Park, Widmore, Park Langley & 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 Shortlands 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:
For how long you care for the youngster relies on the sort of foster caretreatment. It can range from one night to numerous years, or till the youngster is an grown-up.
You might have the ability to foster and also function. Whether you can relies on the youngster's scenarios and also the fostering service you relate to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering agency.
You do not need to own your house, but normally, you'll need to have a extra room.
Before you can foster you need to pass an evaluation to examine that you have the ability to care for a youngster. You will not be analyzed on your age, ethnic culture, gender, marriage standing, faith or sexual preference.
We have aided to place 100's of carers across the UK and also have more than one decade of experience, which indicates we can offer you the finest feasible assistance required on your trip to assist supply a safe and also protected house to youngsters and also youths in treatment.
Candidates will be analyzed, whether it's your initial time as a foster carer or if you're an experienced foster carer seeking to transfer fostering firms. We utilize our years of experience to match you with the right fostering agency, assessing capabilities, place and also experience. We develop relationships between carers and also team, and also you'll have an experienced expert on hand to assist 24 hours a day.
At Kids First Fostering, we will constantly prioritise the safety and security and also welfare of the children and also youths in treatment, by only picking to collaborate with reliable Fostering Agencies in addition to the training and also assistance we supply to prospective foster carers. To attain this, we stick to six core worths:
We assist all of our prospective foster parents in their trip to becoming foster carers.
We urgently need more foster carers in Shortlands and surrounding areas such as Bromley, Bromley Park, Widmore, Park Langley, Sundridge, Plaistow, Beckenham, Hayes, Eden Park, Bickley.
All of our foster carers to-be receive extensive foster training details and also assistance so that they can supply a first-rate foster treatment service and also make a real difference to a youngster or young person in need. We additionally function to connect our area of foster carers together - if you make a decision to be a foster parent you will have the opportunity to meet our existing carers, hear their foster treatment tales and also pick up from their experience.
Also after you have taken on a foster youngster or young person, you will have the full assistance of our expert team that will be on hand, 24 hours a day, to answer any kind of questions you might have.
If you live in Shortlands and would like to be connected with the best fostering agency in Shortlands or have any questions about fostering, becoming a foster parent or fostering a child in Shortlands please complete the form near the top of this page.
We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Shortlands, London, Dartford, Crawley, Chatham, Basildon, Maidstone, Watford, Gillingham, Woking, Harlow and across the London.
If you think you could help foster a child we’d love to hear from you, whatever stage you’re at.