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Find out More About Fostering in Upper Ifield

We are recruiting foster carers in Upper Ifield and surrounding areas including: Chatham, Gillingham, Dartford, Maidstone, Basildon, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, London, Harlow, Shorne, Thong, Shorne Ridgeway, Shorne West & more.

Find Out More About Fostering

In Upper Ifield

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 Upper Ifield 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 night to several years, or till the youngster is an grown-up.

You might have the ability to foster as well as function. Whether you can relies on the youngster's conditions as well as the fostering service you use to. This can be your neighborhood council or an independent fostering company.

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

Before you can foster you have to pass an evaluation to check that you're able to look after a youngster. You will not be analyzed on your age, ethnicity, sex, marriage condition, faith or sexual preference.

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Foster Parents Urgently Needed in Upper Ifield. 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 means we can offer you the best feasible support needed on your trip to help offer a safe and secure as well as risk-free house to youngsters as well as youngsters in care.

Candidates will be analyzed, whether it's your very first time as a foster carer or if you're an skilled foster carer aiming to transfer fostering agencies. We use our years of experience to match you with the best fostering company, evaluating abilities, location as well as experience. We build connections in between carers as well as team, as well as you'll have an skilled expert available to help 24 hr a day.

Fostering Values

At Kids First Fostering, we will always prioritise the safety as well as welfare of the young adults as well as youngsters in care, by just choosing to collaborate with respectable Fostering Agencies as well as the training as well as support we offer to prospective 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 support all of our prospective foster moms and dads in their trip to becoming foster carers.

We urgently need more foster carers in Upper Ifield and surrounding areas such as Shorne, Thong, Shorne Ridgeway, Shorne West, Riverview Park, Chalk, Parrock Farm, Higham, Henhurst, Gadshill.

Every one of our foster carers to-be get extensive foster training details as well as support so that they can offer a top-notch foster care service as well as make a actual distinction to a youngster or young adult in need. We also function to attach our area of foster carers with each other - if you decide to be a foster moms and dad you will have the chance to meet with our existing carers, hear their foster care tales as well as pick up from their experience.

Also after you have taken on a foster youngster or young adult, you will have the full support of our expert group who will be on hand, 24 hr a day, to respond to any questions you might have.

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

We are actively looking for both short-term & long-term foster carers in Upper Ifield, Chatham, Gillingham, Dartford, Maidstone, Basildon, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, London, Harlow 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.