The East Midlands is where it all started for us back in 2000 and where our very first fostering team was born. Today, it’s still at the heart of our fostering family and is home to our Nottingham head office and fantastic support team.

Fostering People are rated as Outstanding by Ofsted, across all areas of our service and have been since 2013, making us one of the very best independent agencies that you can trust to provide you with the very best support around alongside our therapeutic approach.

Benefits of working with Fostering People

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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Why foster with Fostering People in the East Midlands?

When you foster in the East Midlands with us, you’re guaranteed truly local support. That’s because our staff live within the communities they work for, meaning they truly understand the needs of local carers and can use this knowledge to help you make a real difference to children’s lives.

In fact, we pride ourselves on our sense of community and host regular events, support groups and training courses to help you get the best from your fostering experience. We have a range of local social events across the region to enable foster parents to get together and have fun.

There’s a shortage of around 500 foster carers cross the East Midlands so we looking to recruit new foster parents today. If you’re thinking about beginning a journey of foster care in the East Midlands, we’d love to hear from you.

As an independent fostering agency, we provide:

A generous fostering allowance.

Initial and continuous training and development opportunities.

Regular visits from an experience and dedicated social worker.

We welcome applications from anyone interested in fostering regardless of your sexuality or gender, whether you’re single, married or living with a partner, as long as you have been living together for a year or more.

All carers must be at least 21 years old
You must be able to provide a stable home
A spare room is required for the child or young person that you foster

Latest Ofsted report

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

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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

Fostering Stories

Foster carer’s receives ‘Love your Garden’ make over nominated by the young people they have cared for

August 29 2018

Fostering People foster carers, Fiona and Karl were featured on the UK most watched gardening programme, ITVs ‘Love your Garden’.

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Toni and Graham Fosters' story

November 10 2020

Twenty years ago, in the year 2000, Toni and Graham embarked on a new journey within the fostering care sector that has led them to become Fostering People’s longest fostering parents.

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Andi's fostering story

September 28 2020

"It was a day we would never forget, driving home from Nottingham after being approved as foster parents at our Panel meeting. We were on cloud nine, excited to get home to that chilled bottle of champagne in the fridge to celebrate our new vocation."

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John and Yvonne's fostering story

September 28 2020

After fostering for five years, Yvonne remembered the day they were approved as foster carers.

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Julie and Mark's fostering story

September 28 2020

Read about Julie and Mark's fostering story. They have been fostering for around 8 years now and have looked after children of all ages.

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Emma and Mike's fostering story

September 28 2020

Emma and Mike decided to join Fostering People following a recommendation from close friends who are foster parents with the agency. They liked the fact that they felt we would not just be a “number” and it had a family feel to the agency.

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Steve and Sandra's fostering story

September 17 2020

Steve and Sandra become foster parents because they wanted to give a child or a young person an opportunity to be a part of their family and with their life experiences sensed they could offer a secure and consistent environment to enable a young person to thrive.

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85%

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

85%

of our East Midlands 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.

85%

of our East Midlands foster parents feel that Fostering People always take their fostering family's needs into account.

I have worked in Social Care for the past 19 years, having had the opportunity to work across various Children Services. My journey with Fostering People started 8 years ago, first as a Senior Supervising Social Worker then as a Team Manager within the East Midlands. I continue to enjoy working in a family and welcoming environment, fantastic team of Social Workers who work together to support our dedicated Foster Parents who welcome children and young people in their households. I continue to embrace this fantastic journey with a mindset of "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much" .

Christianne Sammut Team Manager

Meet the team

Laura Wicks

Service Manager

Coral Richardson

Recruitment and Enquiry Officer

Luisa Schroeter

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Selina Reid

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Emily Hendricks

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Kayleigh Spinks

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Sundeep Kaur Sagoo-Taak

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Emma Dakin

Senior Supervising Social Worker

Christianne Sammut

Team Manager

“There’s always someone at the end of the phone with a friendly voice to help you out when needed.”

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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 about our fostering services, then we’d love to hear from you.

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

Fostering Guide

East Midlands Steps to foster Brochure

October 15 2020

This guide gives you all the information you need about becoming a foster parent with Fostering People in the East Midlands.

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You can get in touch by filling out our online enquiry form with any queries that you may have.

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Foster Care Fortnight 2021 #Whywecare

May 5 2021

Our foster parents and staff share with us #WhyWeCare this Foster Care Fortnight.

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LGBT History Month

January 27 2021

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Fostering People hosts virtual Santa visits to bring festive cheer to children

December 21 2020

Fostering People will be hosting virtual Santa visits to bring festive cheer to foster children who may not make it to his grotto this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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