If you're already a foster carer and interested in fostering with us, we'll make sure that your transfer is as quick and easy as possible. We always aim to complete your approval within 4 months of your application.
The benefits of fostering with us are:
- the potential for payments of up to £58,578.52 per annum (based on one parent and child arrangement with an Advanced Level 3 foster carer)
- payment for skills to recognise your fostering experience
- better matching with children and young people and your family
- family time and appointments will be more local to where you live (unlike other fostering services, we make a commitment to place Kent children in Kent homes, within 10 miles of their previous home)
- you'll get supervision and support by experienced, skilled and compassionate fostering staff, who work locally to you and from the same offices as your children and young people's social workers
- access to our ‘Placement Stability Team’ during challenging times, supported by a clinical psychologist
- access to unique training, which includes the ‘Reflective Fostering Programme’
- opportunities to be part of new projects, where your ideas and contributions can impact directly on our children, young people and foster carers
- opportunities to be part of a range of different fostering schemes including family support, emergency bed, parent and child and disabled children
Hear from our foster carers
Watch videos of our foster carers talk about why they transferred to Kent Fostering, and the benefits of fostering with us: