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Foster Care

By becoming a foster carer you could change a child’s life, providing a family & home to somebody who is unable to be cared-for by their own family.

You could help a child for a few days, months, or even years. There are different types of fostering to choose from depending on your circumstances.

Different types of fostering
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Fostering stories
Six steps to fostering
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Who can be a foster carer?

Resources

Here at B&NES we try to ensure our carers have all the information they might need. These resources pages are packed full of additional information, links and downloads to help current carers as well as further inform anyone interested in fostering.

Foster Carers Charter
Fostering Information Pack
Statement of purpose
Toy Library
Training Booklet
Useful Contacts
Where can I find international food
Where can I find places of worship?
Young person’s safeguarding guide

Support

Fostering is incredibly rewarding, but can also be challenging at times. We believe that giving our foster carers the best support we can allows them to better focus their time on providing a stable, friendly and safe home for the children they care for.

Caring for Carers
Children of foster carers (CFC)
R2K: holidays and activities
Training
Training Booklet

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Please contact us if you have any questions or wish to enquire about becoming a foster carer in Bath & North East Somerset

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If you are unsure about your eligibitily to foster you can take our quiz to help you gain a better idea.

Bath & North East Somerset Council Fostering Services are always on the look out for new foster carers. Take the fostering quiz to see if you are eligible to become a foster carer?

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Fostering stories

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Who can foster?

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See if you can become a foster carer. You may find the responses to your answers are not always as you’d expect!

This will take just a couple of minutes.

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1) How old are you?

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2) Do you have a spare bedroom?

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Foster carer's stories

No one can tell you more about being a foster carer, and the rewards it brings, better than our foster carers.

Click on an foster carer to find out more about there story

Gill’s story

"I am a single parent foster carer, I don’t have a partner. There are some parts of my role that are actually so much easier being a single carer, I don’t have to consider my partner in any decisions I make."
Watch Gill's story
Iain's story

“I love the challenge of fostering. I would say that most of the kids that come into care, although they might have loads of different behavioural issues…basically what it comes down to is just love.”
Watch Iain's story
Richard's story

“Christmas, birthdays such like, we’ve got a calendar there on the wall and there’s 39 children that we still keep in- keep in contact with and their birthday dates are on the wall.”
Watch Richard's story
Sandra's story

“We’re saying our doors are open, at any time, you know, we’re not just foster carers until they’re 18, we’re foster carers for their life…"
watch Sandra's story

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