Worcestershire Fostering
Your Local Authority Fostering Service, providing our children and families with local support, training and activities throughout the year.
Meet our families
Join Worcestershire'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.
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.
Guidance and documents for approved foster carers
Download useful policies and handbooks you will need as a foster carer.
Financial support and managing invoices and payments
Manage invoices, payments, foster carers fees, claims and expenses.
Foster Carer Exemption Form
Foster Carer Exemption (For Fostering Agencies/Providers only).
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:
Worcestershire Fostering Privacy Notice
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Support for children who are Looked After or Adopted from care
Children who are Looked After or Adopted from care may be eligible for 30 hours of childcare.
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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