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About Fostering Together

About Fostering Together

Fostering Together is a specialist independent fostering provider established by a dedicated team with extensive experience in supporting and developing foster carers for children with disabilities and complex medical needs. We share a clear vision to provide the highest quality foster placements for children and young people living with disabilities, to enable them to flourish in life.

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At Fostering Together, the child comes first in everything we do. We are a friendly team of professionals with large amount of combined experience in fostering, education, safeguarding and health & social care.

We value people and their inputs, supporting and developing our staff, carers and our support services staff in order to empower the best outcomes for children in care who may have disabilities and complex needs.

 

At Fostering Together there is always somebody available for us. Everyone goes out of their way to support us. They are all friendly and approachable and anything we have asked for or needed has been there. – Christine & Allan, Foster Carers

Our Values

Our organisational values describe our core ethics and principles; they drive our
purpose through a shared vision to provide the best possible care.

We do the right thing

We are guided by integrity, fairness, and respect, and our commitment to ethical practices, transparency, and accountability ensures that we always act in the best interests of children and families.

We make a lasting positive difference

We strive to provide safe, supportive and engaging environments to enable everyone to flourish.

We work together

We share common goals, value each other and work collaboratively in a fair and open way to achieve more as a team.

We safeguard children

We put children and their health, well-being and rights at the heart of everything that we do.

 

We improve outcomes

We recognise the uniqueness of individuals and are committed to creating positive futures and improving outcomes for children.

Our Team is passionate about positive outcomes for children with disabilities in care

Meet Our Team

Neil

Managing Director

Amy

Senior Social Work Practitioner

Debbie

Finance & HR Coordinator

Maddie

Community Engagement Officer

Rachael

Social Work Apprentice

Matt

Responsible Individual & Director

Maria

Senior Social Work Practitioner

Greg

Registered Manager, Director & Designated Safeguarding Officer

Nikki

Senior Social Work Practitioner

Josh

Admin Assistant

Carly

Fostering Coordinator

Jack

Operations & Development Manager

Cathy

Agency Decision Maker

Community Associates

Sally

Nurse Trainer

Charlotte

Palliative & Bereavement Community Support

Sarah

Nurse Trainer

Hannah

Nurse Trainer

Toni

Nurse Trainer

Nicola

Palliative & Bereavement Community Support

Annette

Makaton Instructor

Laura

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Champion

Our Evolution

Our founding team got together in 2019 with a mutual desire to create a high-quality service for foster carers and children in care. Our team's combined extensive experience and commitment to providing loving family environments for those in care enables us to ensure that every foster family, child and young person feels supported, respected and valued.

In August 2020 our application was approved by Ofsted and we began our journey to support and develop foster families to provide loving and nurturing family homes to children in care with a variety of needs. 

In January 2022, due to the high calibre of experience within our fostering familes, support network and staff team, we decided to focus our service on supporting families caring for children with disabilities and complex needs.

Fostering Together News & Updates

Zoo days in Spring with Fostering Together 🐒

We are Great Place to Work Certified!

Maddie Joins the Team!

December 2024 at Fostering Together 🎄

More New Team members before closing 2024!