About your Foster with North East hub team

Your fostering information pack

Together for Children Sunderland are the lead local authority for the Foster with North East project which has brought 12 local authorities together for the first time ever to recruit and support prospective foster carers in the North East of England. Foster with North East is based within Together for Children at the Sandhill Centre in the centre of Sunderland. We have a core team of five staff members, including three Fostering social workers, an assistant social worker, and a data analysis assistant. There are also many other team members who work as an extension of the project, but the core team responds to enquiries from across the region.

We're here to ensure that foster care recruitment and applicants are made a priority and are given the warmest of welcomes. When we thought about how the support hub would work, we spent a lot of time considering how we could add value to the current foster care recruitment processes that are in place for our 12 different local authority partners and for us a priority was making sure that when someone picks up the phone and calls us, they will speak to an experienced foster care Fostering social worker.

When you get in touch with us you will receive a very warm welcome and a team who will work with you at a pace you're comfortable. Sometimes, people prospective foster carers are unsure about what they want to ask, other times people come to us with a list. No matter the approach, we make sure that we're ready and available to answer any query you have.