Fostering futures

This scheme aims to ensure our most challenging children are cared for in a family home. These children are likely to be older than 10 years and will have experienced many rejections and disruptions in their lives.

Foster care workers will need to have:

• a room for the sole use of the child
• a qualification in caring for children which may be in any one of the following fields:

 Social Work DipSW, NNEB or NVQ CCYP Level 3

 Education

 Youth and Community

 Health

• a minimum of three years working with children in a professional capacity in one of the fields including experience of working with challenging behaviour

OR

• four years experience of caring for someone else’s child in a residential capacity.

In return you will receive an annual salary as well as the fostering allowance associated with the age of the child being cared for. You will be self-employed and responsible for your own tax and insurance. Foster care workers receive additional training and support and you will be entitled to have four weeks each year without having a child placed with you.

Related information

Have you read our pages about

 mainstream fostering?