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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 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 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 useful contact information can be found in the approved carers’ zone.
Could you 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
13 August 2024Mockingbird families get together to celebrate the successful launch of five new constellations across Devon since 2022.
Back in 2022 we launched our first Mockingbird constellation after gaining funding from the Department for Education (DfE). The pilot project was aimed at improving the stability of fostering placements, and strengthening the relationships between carers, children and young people, fostering services and birth families. Mockingbird, a programme brought in by The Fostering Network, is […]
- 14 March 2024
Have your say in the Ofsted 2024 Point in Time Survey
Ofsted would like to hear your views about the support and services you receive from Devon County Council. Your views can help shape Ofsted’s inspection report and might be included in the comprehensive national listening exercise, ‘Big Listen’. Ofsted would like to hear from both foster carers and children in care. You can give your […]
- 26 February 2024
LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week 2024
LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2024 returns on Monday 4 March. Running until to Sunday 10 March, it remains the only campaign in these industries to focus on the LGBTQ+ community. Read on to hear from some of our inspirational foster carers.
