We aim to provide each child/young person entrusted in our care with emotionally warm, loving, nurturing, safe and secure foster families to enable them to reach their individual full potential.
Become an approved foster carer and part of the Illuminance family of foster carers and let’s share the love! Children and young people are our future, we want to support them to reach their full individual potential. We value, appreciate, and commend our foster carers for their good work and sacrifices.
Are you passionate about children/young people?
Do you have a spare room?
Are you thinking about fostering?
Foster with us:
- Outstanding Training
- Excellent dedicated Support
- Competitive Fostering Allowances
Our promise to the children in our care
To provide children with a nurturing, safe, stable, secure, warm loving foster families to support them thrive to their individual potential.
To provide children with a secure base to explore and learn to form trusting relationships.
To provide children with foster carers who are physically and emotionally available, reliable, responsive and are able to advocate on children’s behalf.
To provide children / young people with the highest standard of care experience with our foster families.
To provide children / young people with excellent culturally diverse placements matched to their individual needs.
To minimise instability, placement disruption and moves for children / young people.
To ensure that the wishes / feelings of the child is heard and included in all decision making about their lives.
To support children / young people deal with any “big feelings” they may have so that it does not get in the way of what they enjoy and from being happy
To celebrate the achievements of all our foster children annually by organising summer fun / achievement day.
Could you foster with us? All you need is:
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Passion for the welfare of children and young people
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Ability to provide a child with nurture, comfort and protection
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To be emotionally and physically available
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To be reliable, responsive and able to advocate for children
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To be able to provide a child with a secure base to explore and learn to form a trusting relationship
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To be able to support children through good and difficult times
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A spare room suitable for a child
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To share in our vision for children
What we’ll provide
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Excellent dedicated support throughout your fostering career and beyond.
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Excellent training!
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Regular personal supervision and 24/7 support.
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Competitive Fostering Allowance.
The Fostering Process and Support:
Our promise to our Foster Carers
To provide our Fostering Families with professional training to understand a child’s world and support children reach their individual potentials.
To ensure that our fostering families are supported through supervision, training, and development to enable them to deliver the fostering role to the highest professional standard for a positive outcome for the child/ young person.
To ensure that all our foster families receive equal support and opportunities.
To continuously improve our support strategy to our foster carers to maintain placements which enhances children / young people’s quality of life.
To improve service delivery informed by the wishes and feelings of children / young people, foster carers, and families.
To ensure that our foster families are respected, appreciated and rewarded for the good job they do and sacrifices they make.
To promote harmony and collaborative working among all professional involved in the child’s life.
Ready to take the next step?
The best way to take the next step is to book a call with us so we can get to know each other and recommend what’s best for you to get started on this amazing journey.
