Who Can Become A Foster Carer?

To become a foster carer for Plus One you need to have the ability to provide a secure affectionate home for the child in your care giving them your full commitment, and your home needs to have a spare bedroom to enable the child to have a room of their own.

Prior to your approval to foster a child, you will need to go through an assessment process. This assessment process is a way of finding out about your potential as a foster carer. It is important that Plus One know what skills you have to offer to allow us to understand what your training needs are.

There is not a specific type of person who can become a foster carer; but there are similarities foster carers have. They recognise that they can make a difference in a child/young person’s life; they are willing and able to make the full time commitment necessary in providing on going support and guidance to these children in placement. They lead by example becoming role models, yet still provide a stable nurturing environment.

Carers come from many occupations, with varying backgrounds and life experiences, all able to meet the wide-ranging needs of the children and young people who are looked after. Foster carers can be married, single, heterosexual, gay, lesbian or cohabiting. They may or may not have children of there own and have different religions, beliefs, cultures and practices.

Fostering agencies welcome carers with all the above examples and are also interested in the carer themselves, their personalities, enthusiasm and passion to work with the children and young people to make a difference.