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Fostering Allowance

Foster Carers have both an important and rewarding role in helping young people develop and grow, whilst also earning a generous allowance.
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Finance isn’t the reason people foster; our Foster Carers come to the role because they really want to make a difference to the lives of children.  But we know how important money is to almost every aspect of our lives.  It's important to consider how fostering will affect your finances to understand if fostering can work for you. 

Our Foster Carers are recognised as part of our professional team and paid a generous fostering allowance that reflects their specialist skills, knowledge and experience.  A weekly fostering payment applies for every night a child is in your care and is broken down into two key elements:

1.  Cost of the child – including food, clothing, utilities, transport, pocket money, outings and activities.

 

2.  Professional fee – to recognise the professionalism of a Foster Carer and reward them for their skills, hard work and commitment to caring for a vulnerable child.

 

At Choice Fostering your weekly allowance could range from £300 - £700 and this depends on a number of factors, including:

  • The local authority or independent fostering agency you work with.

  • Your experience and the length of time you've been fostering.

  • The age and number of children in your care.

  • The placement type - for example, you may receive a higher payment for specialist fostering such as parent and child fostering.

Service Provision

Choice Fostering caters for children and young people, from unborn children (and their mothers) to the age of 18 years, of either gender and a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We work in partnership with Local Authorities to ensure the provision of a wide range of safe, secure and appropriate foster care options for children and young people with Foster Carers.

 

There are a number of placement types we offer:

  • Mainstream Fostering Emergency Placements are provided at short notice and supported by a 24-hour emergency response service.

 

  • Bridging Placements are a short term, flexible placement, focusing on ensuring the most sensitive transition for the child into and from the placement.

 

  • Short Term Placements provide care for a few days, weeks or months while plans are being made for the child’s long-term future.

 

  • Long Term Placements provide permanent care for a child up to and into adult independence where adoption is not an option. Permanency is promoted and encouraged to offer a stable home for life.

 

  • Sibling Placements are placements where siblings are either placed together or separately, where we would facilitate contact between siblings.

 

  • Single Placements have highly experienced Carers looking after children and young people who have very complex needs and / or challenging behaviour.

 

  • Respite Breaks are where Foster Carers provide a break for parents and additional support where their own support networks are lacking. This can be an overnight stay or a couple of weeks.

 

  • Unaccompanied Children placements are for unaccompanied asylum seekers. Support packages include immigration; supporting religious, languages and cultural needs; integration with community and faith groups.

 

  • "Staying Put" placements enable young people who have settled into a placement to be able to stay in place upon achieving their 18th birthday and beyond, if this is their wish and it is in their best interest to do so.

 

All our placements are monitored to secure positive outcomes against our every Child Matters’ Agenda:

  • Be Healthy

  • Be Safe

  • Enjoy and Achieve

  • Make a Positive Contribution

  • Achieve Economic Wellbeing

Find out how to become a Foster Carer with Choice Fostering or Contact Us today. 

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