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Your Local Authority Fostering Service, providing our children and families with local support, training and activities throughout the year.
Foster Care Fortnight 2025
Running from 12 to 25 May, Foster Care Fortnight is the UK鈥檚 largest campaign dedicated to raising awareness about fostering. This year鈥檚 theme, The Power of Relationships, highlights the essential role that strong, supportive bonds play in the lives of children in care demonstrating how connection, trust, and stability can change futures.
This year, care-experienced adult Tash has generously shared her personal journey to help raise awareness and inspire others to consider fostering. Tash entered the care system at just four years old, alongside her 10-month-old sister. They were placed with foster carers Barbara and Brian who became Tash鈥檚 long-term family and continue to be central figures in her life today. Find out more about Tash鈥檚 story.
Meet our families
Join Worcestershire's largest family! Read real life accounts and follow our 'Day in the Life' blog for an authentic and honest picture of fostering.
Types of fostering
There's a role tailored to you and your skills. You can offer short term, long term, respite, buddy, parent and child, and specialist foster care.
Foster carers training and development
Training and development of our foster carers from before approval to a varied programme of training for approved foster carers.
Tax, National Insurance and benefits for foster carers
See information for Tax, National Insurance and benefits for foster carers.
Foster carers financial support and managing payments
Manage invoices, payments, foster carers fees, claims and expenses.
Fostering is.... Everything
Fostering can be life-changing not only for the children and young people who come into care but also for the foster families who welcome them into their homes.
Already fostering
Information and support available if you are already fostering.
Already fostering
Information and support if you are already fostering with a different agency and you would like to transfer to us.
Guidance and documents for approved foster carers
Download useful policies and handbooks you will need as a foster carer.
Foster Carer Exemption (For Fostering Agencies and Providers only).
Related
Our aim is to work with parents, carers and young people together and to offer advice and support before a situation reaches crisis point.
Looking after a fostered child is a complex role, here you will find some useful resources to help you.
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