Benefits and rewards
Besides the warm satisfaction of improving a child's life you'll also get:
- competitive payments of up to £1,126.51 per week (based on one parent and child arrangement with an Advanced Level 3 foster carer), which is equivalent to a £58,578.52 annual fostering payment
- access to our super friendly support team any time of day, any day of the year
- the chance to gain recognised qualifications to develop your fostering career and increase your payments
- invitations to our many training and social events to develop your skills and meet other foster carers, including our annual foster carers appreciation event.
When you join us, you'll be given full induction training to prepare you for your first year and you'll be paired up with an experienced 'buddy' foster carer to help ease you into your new career.
Find out more about the support we offer to foster carers.
What's different about Kent Fostering?
Unlike other fostering services, we make a commitment to place Kent children in Kent homes within 10 miles of their previous home.
As the children you care for are local, the waiting times for a placement will be less than those of other fostering services.
Our social workers are all local and all have fantastic knowledge of local support services.
To ensure a good placement match, our children are shown potential carer profiles and get a choice of placement where possible.
We're a public service and we're not in it for profit. Our only goal is to provide safe, nurturing homes for our children.
Our partnership with the regional fostering recruitment hub
We're proud to be partnering with 19 other local authorities as part of a new regional fostering recruitment hub – Local Authority Fostering South East.
We’re joining forces for the first time to recruit and support more amazing foster carers able to provide safe, loving and local homes for children across our region.
Our fostering team will continue to support you on your foster carer journey but now you will also benefit from a centralised regional platform for enquiries, with local authorities working together to ensure you get the very best training and support from the start of your fostering journey.
What’s more, when you join us you’ll now also be joining a wider network of over 2,800 amazing fostering families across the South East, all working together to change the lives of children in our communities.
To find out more, visit the Local Authority Fostering South East website or get in touch.
