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Membership

Become a member to get access to a variety of benefits to support you and your foster children.

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  • Becoming a member
  • Foster/kinship carer membership
  • Retired foster carer membership
  • Fostering service membership
  • Associate membership

For carers

Wanting to foster or already a foster carer? We have information for any part of your fostering journey!

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  • Get advice
  • Allegations support
  • What is fostering?
  • Becoming a foster carer
  • What the role involves
  • Caring for a child
  • Foster Carer Finances
  • Relationship with your fostering service
  • Learning and development

For fostering services

From allegations to annual reviews, checks and references, we offer information and advice on a range of key practice issues for fostering services.  

  • Relationships with your foster carers
  • Allegations and disputes support
  • Legislation, guidance and best practice
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • The Skills to Foster
  • Training
  • Consultancy
  • Publications and resources

Policy and Campaigns

Learn about our policy and campaigning work to improve fostering across the UK.

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  • Our Campaigns
  • Empowering children and young people
  • Supporting foster carers
  • Improving the social care system
  • Our impact
  • State of the Nations
  • Campaign with us
  • Our reports, consultation responses and briefings

Programmes

We aim to improve outcomes for fostered children and young people.

Discover how
  • Mockingbird Programme
  • Step Up Step Down
  • Fostering Wellbeing
  • Fostering Attainment and Achievement
  • Fostering Kinship Support

Get involved

There are various ways that you can support us by getting involved.

Learn how
  • Foster Care Fortnight
  • Support our work
  • Fostering Friendly Employers
  • Partner with us
  • About us
  • News and blogs
  • Contact us

Our locations

  • Northern Ireland
  • Wales
  • Scotland
  • England

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