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Discover everything you need to know about fostering with our Start Your Journey Brochure, including:

Types of fostering
Training and support
Fostering allowances and benefits
Application process

What happens next?

Now that you’ve learned a little more about fostering, one of our friendly fostering advisors will give you a call to discuss any questions you may have, and also run through some questions for you so we both have all the information needed to take the next steps.

Fostering Stories

“Give it a go. If you’ve got a lot of love and patience, you'll reap the rewards”.

April 26 2024

Meet foster parents Karen and Wayne who have been fostering with FCA South Western since 2020. Here's their story...

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“Fostering has brought us all together as a family, I wish we had started a long time ago”

February 16 2024

Meet FCA foster parent Paula, who started her fostering journey with FCA Thames Valley after her own three children flew the nest. She shares her fostering highlights, and how it’s brought her family closer together.

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"My biggest regret is that we didn't do this earlier"

January 15 2024

Meet Elaine and Stephen, foster parents from Northern Ireland. In 2020 they decided it was the perfect time to embark on their fostering journey. Here is their story...

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"They say it takes a village to raise a child, and they are my village, honestly."

January 8 2024

Meet foster parent Claudia from Thames Valley who has highlighted the importance of recruiting more BAME foster parents to support our looked after children. Claudia also talks the about importance of the support she has had from FCA.

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“I wasn’t going to give up on him, no matter what”

October 20 2023

Celia was determined to give her foster child the best life she could, she said: “Lewis* came from a really difficult background, things were tough. But I wasn’t going to give up on him, no matter what.”

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