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The assessment takes up to 16 weeks once we have received your fostering application.
You need to be aged 21 or over to foster, there is no upper age limit to fostering.
Yes, as part of the fostering assessment the social worker will need to meet your children and talk with them about fostering. For fostering to work within a household everyone has to be on board. Once you are approved, we have a group called Kidz of Carerz which is open to foster carers' own children aged 7 to 17. This is a group to support your birth children and to meet with other families who foster, several workshops run throughout the year.
Yes, we welcome applications whether you are single or in a relationship.
Yes, as long as you can offer a stable home to a child or young person, you can foster. You do not need to be married to foster.
No, all fostered children must have their own bedroom. Siblings can share where it is deemed safe, under 2’s can sleep in the foster carer's bedroom.
Yes, this will be discussed as part of the placement agreement plan when a child comes to stay with you. The child’s social worker must be informed before arrangements are made if the foster carer intends to go on holiday as they need to know where the child is. The foster carer would also speak to their own supervising social worker before arrangements are made.
No, to look after a fostered child the adult needs to be aged 18 and over. Everyone in your household aged 18 and over will have a DBS check, as part of the assessment, we also ask you to put someone forward as part of your support network.