51²èÂ¥ Fostering
Your Local Authority Fostering Service, providing our children and families with local support, training and activities throughout the year.
Meet our families
Join 51²èÂ¥'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.
Fostering questions and answers
View Frequently Asked Questions about fostering with us.
Already fostering
Information and support available if you are already fostering.
Already fostering
Information and support if you are already fostering.
Guidance and documents for approved foster carers
Download useful policies and handbooks you will need as a foster carer.
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.
Financial support for foster carers
See what financial support is available for foster carers.
Financial support and managing invoices and payments
Manage invoices, payments, foster carers fees, claims and expenses.
Foster Carer Exemption (For Fostering Agencies/Providers only).
Tax, National Insurance and benefits for foster carers
See information for Tax, National Insurance and benefits for foster carers.
Any of us
Watch a short powerful fostering film that showcases the incredible impact of fostering, because any one of us has the power to make a difference in a child’s life through fostering:
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Children's social care
Our aim is to work with parents, carers and young people together and to offer advice and support before a situation reaches crisis point.
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