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What is fostering?
Fostering is a rewarding and recognised profession – what could it mean to you and your family?
Ready to foster?
Could you foster? Find out everything you need to know about who can become a foster carer.
Apply to foster
The steps you will take when applying to become a foster carer.
Urgent help
If you are a foster carer and you need some urgent support or advice, call your supervising social worker, your placement co-ordinator – or the out-of-hours team on 0345 6000 388.
Other key contact information can be found in the approved carers’ zone.
Do you have what it takes to foster a teenager?
Fostering a teenager is one of the most rewarding and challenging roles you may ever take on. We currently need more foster carers for children aged 13+ across the county.
Support for our carers
We know our network of foster carers deliver the highest standards of care because we have worked with them to make sure they are the best they can be.
As well as providing you with regular, high-quality training opportunities you will have access to a range of professional support and guidance from our team.
Support for young people
If you’re currently in foster care there’s lots of advice and support available from Devon’s Children in Care Council.
News
3 November 2022Mockingbird in Devon
Mockingbird, a global award winning and pioneering programme led by The Fostering Network in the UK, delivers sustainable foster care.
16 May 2022New Regular Savings policy launches
As corporate parents to 812 children who have been placed in our care, we want to give our young the best possible life as adults
- 5 May 2022
#FosteringCommunities
Foster Care Fortnight 2022 starts on Monday (9 May) and runs through until Sunday 22 May. It’s the Fostering Network’s annual campaign to raise awareness of the power of fostering, this year they are celebrating the fostering community and we’ll be taking the opportunity to help shine a light on some of the people across the fostering […]