

Are you interested in fostering?
Sometimes families are unable to provide the level of care and support a child needs and it may be unsafe for children to continue to live at home.
When a child or young person comes into the care of the authority there are a number of possible options for where they will live. If its not considered safe for a child or young person to remain at home or living with family anymore, then foster carers are required by the Local Authority to provide support. Children and young people have different care plans depending on what’s happening for them and their families. Sometimes, it’s a short-term arrangement and other times its longer term and they will remain in care until they are 18 years old.
Families that Foster can offer children different types of accommodation such as emergency, respite, short term, long term, buddy or specialist. Visit the types of fostering page to find out more.
Or call us today to speak to a Fostering Recruitment Officer on 0800 028 2158.
Download: Fostering information pack (PDF)
The fostering journey
"To be a good foster carer you need patience and perseverance". Pirjo - foster carer
That journey is made together with the social workers from Worcestershire Children First Fostering. Their job is to work with you and make sure that you understand the needs of children who are looked after and that you have or can acquire the skills and knowledge to meet their needs.
The assessment of a person’s suitability to foster consists of two stages. To ensure that the process is smooth and efficient, in most instances we run the stages in parallel. Once your initial enquiry is processed, we aim to complete the assessment within four months. This allows time for people to consider carefully whether embarking on this journey is right for them.
We know that people may have been thinking about fostering for some time before feeling ready to begin their journey. We hope this helps you to decide if you can make a positive change to the life of a child or young person.
Fostering drop in events
Come and talk to Worcestershire Children First about fostering at our pop up events.
These are held virtually (unless stated otherwise), please contact us if you have an interest in attending.
Future events
- Thursday 14 December 6:30pm
Face to face
Friday 8 December 2023 10:00am to 4:00pm in Redditch in the following locations:
- Abbey Stadium Sports Centre car park, B97 6EJ between 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Arrow Valley Visitor Centre car park, B98 0LJ, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Please note these times are approximate.