Fostering in Wigan

Interested in fostering in Wigan?

Do you live in Wigan or the surrounding areas? Are you interested in fostering? You could make an incredible difference to a child’s life by fostering in Wigan.

Foster parents do amazing work every day with children that are unable to live with their own families. Across the North West over 13,000 children need a safe and stable home with a fostering family who can look after them for as long as they need it.

We need foster parents from a wide range of backgrounds, both couple’s and single foster parents – from any ethnicity, age or sexual orientation to help with the growing need to provide children with a caring and loving foster home.

If you are interested in fostering a child within the Wigan area, get in touch with our friendly fostering team today.

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Benefits of working with Fostering People in Wigan

Allowances

Foster care is a great direction to take in your life. Our foster parents see it as a rewarding role that allows them to help young people develop and grow while earning a generous allowance.

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Support

Providing excellent support to our foster parents is what Fostering People is all about. Our support has an outstanding reputation and is highly accredited.

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Training

Fostering People provide you with excellent training both to help you prepare to foster as well as ongoing training to support your ongoing development.

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How to become a foster parent with Fostering People Wigan?

Fostering a child is an extremely rewarding experience. As a foster parent, you will care for a young people and provide them with a stable, caring, safe family home for as long as they need it.

Our friendly Wigan team is here to help you decide if fostering is right for you and we’re on hand to offer any advice and guidance you may need. The journey to becoming a foster parent can take 4 – 6 months.

To become a foster parent, you’ll need to have:

A spare room for the foster child to make their own
A good sense of humour
A clean and safe home
Access to transport
A good network of people to encourage and support you

24/7 Fostering Support in Wigan

We understand to succeed as a foster parent, you need the very best support.

That’s why when you become a foster parent with us, you’ll receive:

A generous fostering allowance

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Initial and continuing training and development opportunities.

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Regular visits from a dedicated and experience social worker

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Rated Outstanding since 2013 by Ofsted

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Locally-based support groups

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Fun social activities

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Wigan Fostering Allowance & Benefits

Our commitment to working in local communities isn’t just limited to providing excellent support. We also offer our foster parents one of the best financial packages available.

Try our finance calculator to see how much your fostering allowance could be.

Thanks to generous tax relief from HM Revenue & Customs, foster carers pay very little (if any) tax and National Insurance. As a FosterTalk member, you’ll have access to free tax advice and support.

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Why join the Fostering People Wigan?

When you foster with us, you’ll be part of a local community of support. Our staff live within the communities we support and you’ll have receive our highly rated 24/7 support.

You’ll feel part of our Wigan team from the minute you become a foster parent with us.

Fostering People Wigan offer:

Monthly support groups and forums
Family events
Extensive training programme

Fostering People is an independent fostering agency. This means we work closely with local authorities to find suitable foster families for children and young people.

If you’ve got questions about fostering in Wigan or you are ready to start your fostering journey with us. Fill out the form and we’ll get in touch with you shortly.

Alternatively, you can call us on 0800 077 8159.

Latest Ofsted report

We’ve are proud to have been rated as ‘Outstanding’ across all areas of our organisation since 2013!

Statement of Purpose

Our Statement of purpose explains everything we do as an organisation and updated annually or after any significant change within Fostering People.

Meet some of our foster parents

September 28 2020

Tracy and Ian’s fostering story

Following a long career with the local authority, Tracy and Ian decided the time was right to make the move to an independent agency. “We attended training with foster carers from the independent sector and when they discussed the support they received, we realised it was possible to have a more positive fostering experience,” describes Ian.

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September 28 2020

Katie’s fostering story

Katie was a youth worker before becoming a foster parent. Katie explains she has worked in the community and a few of her friends were in foster care and this really motivated her to become a foster parent.

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September 28 2020

Joanne and Stephen’s fostering story | Fostering People

For Joanne and Stephen Phillips, 2012 was a major turning point in their life – it was the year they applied to become foster parents. For Joanne, this opportunity was exactly what she’d been yearning for.

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of our North West foster parents are very satisfied with the support they receive from Fostering People.

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of our North West foster parents feel that the training they have received from Fostering People has helped them meet the specific needs of the children in their care.

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of our North West foster parents feel that Fostering People always take their fostering family’s needs into account.

As an independent agency, we provide:

A generous fostering allowance.

Lynne Maddocks

Service Manager

Julie Sispera

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Ebony Gardner

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Julie Preston

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Lynn Meakin

Referrals Officer

Lydia Kerr

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Jakki Webb

Team Manager

Bernadette Dunn

Referrals Officer

Take your first step to becoming a foster parent today

If you’re interested in becoming a foster parent and would like to learn more, then we’d love to hear from you.

Simply fill in the form below and one of our friendly team will be in touch.

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