Fostering Information
Are you looking for more information about fostering?
At Fostering People, we believe that it’s important you have all of the information about foster care that you need in order to make a considered decision about beginning your career as a foster carer.
If you read this section and decide that you are interested in fostering a child or young person, then please visit our become a foster carer pages for further information about the process to becoming a foster carer.
Your queries about fostering
Here’s a few fostering questions that you can expect to find the answers to in this foster care information section:
- What is fostering?
- What are the different types of placement I might expect to take in?
- What are Independent Fostering Agencies and what role do they play in the fostering process?
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Will I receive a fostering fee and allowance and if so what does that cover? - What types of children might I expect to foster?
There’s also our fostering frequently asked questions page, which provides a really useful outline of all of the main fostering questions that we encounter.
We recommend that all applicants have a certain level of knowledge about fostering and what’s entailed in becoming a foster carer before beginning the application process. So please take a moment to read through these pages and discover all of the information about fostering that you need.
We’re here to help, so whether you’re interested in becoming a foster carer or simply need more information about fostering, please contact us by calling 0800 077 8159 – we’d love to hear from you.
