Foster for your council or independently?
Fostering for your local council has lots of benefits that can help you and your foster child to live happily and comfortably.
Telford Fostering offers:
- Homes for children locally, keeping them connected to their community, family and friends
- Relationships with other local foster carers and wider support networks
- Weekly allowances of generous payment structure
- Direct investments into services and carers – we're not for profit
- Localised specialist training on your doorstep
- Minimised travel time with local placements
- An on-call team who work with an Outstanding Children’s Services to closely understand children and their personal situations when pairing them with foster carers
- Virtual School access
- Quick contact with social workers
- Long-lasting, stable placements in the local community
- Emotional support to foster carers before, during and after placements
- Community connections – a way for you to give back to your local area
This makes us different to an independent foster agency by being part of a local community, working directly with providers and supporting our carers as a not for profit organisation. We care about you, our children, and doing the best we can to support you to be a successful foster carer.
Being part of a community and being able to give back is of huge importance to our foster carers so we think it will also be important to you.
Whether you want to give a home to a local child, connect with people in your area, or simply feel good about the care you are giving to someone else, fostering could be for you.
We firmly believe that the work we do as a local authority supports the children in our area, gives them the best chance at a happy and supported life, and helps to minimise any disruption to both the foster child and foster parent's life.
Interested to find out more? Enquire now.