Become an evolve foster parent

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Deciding to foster is a huge decision and not one to be taken lightly.

The team at evolve have decades of experience so will be able to answer any questions you may have about becoming a foster parent.

The process is nothing to fear. It takes between 16-20 weeks as we need to make sure all legal requirements are met and that your fostering assessment is completed to our high standard.

Register your interest
Send us your details and one of our experienced fostering advisors will be in touch to arrange a time for an informal chat and discuss your next steps.

evolve's application process

Talk to Us

Get in touch with evolve with us via our website, social media or phone number to register your interest.

A member of our team will call you back within 24 hours to discuss your interest. We will answer any questions you may have.

Your Home visit

After the initial call, and if evolve and you wish to proceed, we will organise a visit to your home to talk about fostering with evolve so you can get to know more about fostering and the support you'll receive from evolve.

Your Application

The next step is to complete our application form and provide the relevant information for your checks and references.

We will help you complete this and answer any questions you may have.

Your assessment

A skilled and experienced Social Worker will visit you on a number of occasions to complete a fostering assessment (referred to as a Form F), and explore your experiences, skills, preferences and to discuss any further questions.

Skills to foster training

You will be required to attend a specialist training to better understand fostering with evolve and our therapeutic model.

You will also be required to undertake a range of online training during your assessment.

Panel

When your assessment and checks are completed, we will be ready to present you to our fostering panel in terms of decision-making around approval.

approval

If the fostering panel recommend approval and this is confirmed by the Agency Decision Maker, you will then be required to sign a foster care agreement.

You will then be allocated your Supervising Social Worker, complete a comprehensive induction and evolve will start to discuss your profile with Local Authorities that are looking for suitable fostering arrangements.

evolve will be with you every step of the way.

With evolve, you will receive comprehensive training and development opportunities. You will also have an experienced foster parent peer mentor and a Supervising Social Worker who has a protected caseload of no more than 7 families.

Not all children and young people referred require a therapeutic approach but as a new foster parent you will be required to attend our 12 week therapeutic re-parenting programme.

In addition to our therapeutic approaches we also provide parent and child and other fostering arrangements. As all children in care will have experienced trauma, and irrelevant of the type of fostering you provide, you are required to understand the therapeutic approaches and how we apply them.

'People at the top go out of their way to make sure foster parents are okay and comfortable.' - V- evolve foster parent

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