Fostering services

Nottinghamshire Fostering Service provides a range of services to looked after children for Nottinghamshire County Council and aims to provide quality foster care placements to meet a child’s individual needs in respect of race, culture, religion, disability and language.

The children we help come from all different backgrounds and all age groups and currently we have a shortage of carers for siblings, older children and teenagers. The fostering service has many different types of foster care to enable us to provide safe, stable and secure family environments, in which children can live and be supported to reach their full potential.  

Becoming a foster carer for us will mean that you will have to go through an approval process to ensure that you have the skills and ability to take on such an important role; this will take about four to six months to complete. Various legal checks will also be undertaken including the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and we will ask for both personal and employer references.  

We will offer you support and guidance throughout the process and we offer all our carers a full support package on approval which includes financial allowances to cover the cost of caring for the child.

All our foster care households are subject to an annual review and health and safety checks.

If you would like to know more, please contact us on the details above to request an information pack.