Social care workers play an invaluable role in the community, supporting individuals and families through challenging times and helping to change lives for the better. We are therefore always very glad to meet a social care worker who wants to foster, because their experience, motivation and compassion can be invaluable in the care of a potentially vulnerable child or young adult.
As a social care worker, you will understand the importance of a safe and secure home environment and the emotional support needed to guide children and young people as they grow up and into adulthood. You may well have come into contact with children and young adults that have lacked these benefits.
If you contact us to say “I am a social care worker and I want to foster” we will be immediately encouraged by the fact that your training could be ideally suited to help you undertake the fostering journey. Furthermore, your sympathy for the vulnerable in society could give you the capacity to offer the love, support, compassion and understanding urgently required by the person in your care.
If you feel ready to speak with us about fostering, or are simply looking for more information, Fostering2Inspire would be delighted to hear from you.
Fostering2Inspire are on hand to support you on every step of your fostering journey, from the first telephone call to the first day with your new young person and onwards from there. To this end, we encourage and promote regular activities and events in collaboration with our fostering families. These give our children and young people opportunities to explore new experiences and a chance to discover hidden talents.
Fostering a child will be life changing both for you and the child. You will learn as much about yourself and the important things in life as the child in your care will learn from you.