Support from others

As well as ensuring you have specialist support from a fostering social worker, the support doesn't just come from us. We offer you the opportunity to 'buddy' with other carers for peer advice, support and mentoring and we run regular support groups and activities that we encourage our foster carers to come along to.

We're proud to be championing the award-winning Mockingbird Programme too and our first constellation is continuing to thrive. It's a model of foster care which replicates an extended family, offering support from experienced foster carers 24/7 to help increase the stability of care arrangements for children and to support our carers.

We have an effective out of hours service delivered by the Emergency Duty Team (EDT) should you need advice and support out of office hours.