About us
Creating a sense of continuity
Fosterplus was founded in 1996, giving us over 25 years’ continuous experience as an independent fostering agency. We train and support foster carers across England and Scotland, in order to provide safe and loving homes for vulnerable children.
Every one of our local offices is rated 'Outstanding' or 'Good' by Ofsted, which reflects our dedication in providing positive outcomes to children and families. Continuity is important to us, and we look to create it in everything we do – most critically, for the children and young people we look after.
Many who enter our care have experienced a disrupted childhood and our aim is to break this cycle and provide more stability. We do this by carefully matching the right foster parents to the right children, and making sure we’re always on hand with support, guidance and help.
Our expertise helps ensure more successful placements – and that’s exactly the sort of continuity we want. This commitment is spelt out in our mission which is to ‘provide positive and stable family environments for the children and young people placed with our carers and ensure that, with the support of our carers, they can thrive emotionally and academically’.
To provide this continuity, we focus on connections.
Connecting you with the services and support you need
We connect our social workers, education and care professionals together, and make sure they’re always available. We connect our foster parents to regular supervision and ongoing training, as well as to a network of other local carers. And we enjoy strong connections with local authorities, who recognise our commitment to creating positive futures.
All of this creates a strong feeling of stability and support which encourages continuity and long-term development, helping foster parents and children and young people step forward with confidence.
25 years
of making a difference
8 offices
across England & Scotland
Around 200
extraordinary foster parents
Over 200
children in our care
Part of the UK’s largest leading communities of children’s service providers
We're proud to be part of the Polaris Community, one of the UK’s leading communities of children’s service providers. When you join Fosterplus, you'll benefit from a local, professional team, alongside wider support and resources from across our community of children's services.
As a community, we have a united commitment to measure and maximise our social value; defining it as ‘The positive emotional, environmental and economic impact we have on the Polaris community and wider society’. We will measure this commitment through our Social Value Pledges giving us a year-on-year benchmark to increase the Social Value we provide. This includes opportunities we offer staff, foster parents, adopters and our children and young people, but also how we work with suppliers, create job and training opportunities and our impact on the environment.
Reasons to choose Fosterplus...
Why choose us?
Everything we do is geared towards this idea of continuity, and it’s something that our foster parents experience too – with stable teams and consistent support and training.
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Careful matching
Careful, considered matching is key, and over many years' experience, we've developed an outstanding reputation for quality matching and excellent outcomes for children in care.
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Allowance calculator
You’ll benefit from an attractive fostering payment for when a child is in your care, together with other benefits and rewards. Find out how much you could receive using our allowance calculator.
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