Help and support for new foster carers

When you are approved as a foster carer, you are not left to cope alone.

The fostering team provide fantastic training and support and will guide you through everything.
Foster carer

What we provide

• regular payments which include an allowance to cover the costs of caring in addition to a professional fee for each child in placement

• monthly visits from your own fostering social worker for support and supervision and telephone contact in between
  
• a year-round out of hours helpline
  
• a ‘placement support scheme’ offering group activities for your foster child during school holidays, and additional care in exceptional circumstances

I love the activities because you get to see people regularly that you make friends with and are in the same boat as you.
Young person in foster care

• a paid ‘short break’ for our foster carers, for one week a year
  
• a full training programme including an opportunity to undertake NVQ Health and Social Care Level 3, Children and Young People
  
• regular support groups with other foster carers
  
• a fostering newsletter to keep you in touch and informed
• events for foster carers and their families
  
• free membership to the UKs leading charity for anyone involved in fostering, the Fostering Network
  
• free membership to East Sussex Fostercare Association.