What we do
What we do
Fostering, therapy and residential care for children who have been through trauma, delivered by one team that talks to itself.
Rated Good by OfstedOur own clinical teamKent, Medway and South London
Fostering, therapy and residential care for children who have been through trauma, delivered by one team that talks to itself.
Long-term, short-term, respite and parent and child arrangements, with the training and clinical backup behind them.
Read moreAssessment, diagnosis and strategies from our own clinicians, with no waiting list and no cost to you.
Read moreA home in the Kent countryside for four children aged 7 to 17, staffed one to one.
Read moreTherapeutic fostering supports young people who have been affected by trauma, abuse or serious disruption before they came into care. It is not soft parenting. It starts from the understanding that a child's behaviour is a way of communicating, and it gives you the training and the clinical backup to answer it properly.
We offer long-term, short-term, respite and parent and child arrangements. Not every child referred to us needs a therapeutic approach, but every foster parent here is trained in one.
If you're thinking about fostering, start Here
We are one of the few children's services in the South East with its own multi-disciplinary clinical team. That is the difference between saying you're therapeutic and being it.
Mental health assessment, diagnosis and strategies for every child we work with.
Children in care can wait up to three years on the NHS. We assess and treat immediately, at no cost to you.
Every member of staff is trained, and every new foster parent completes our 12-week therapeutic re-parenting course.
Support extends to everyone in the home, because fostering affects everyone in it.
The team is led by our Clinical Lead, Jill Hanney, who has 30 years' experience specialising in developmental trauma and spent fifteen of them as a foster carer herself. The wider team covers clinical psychology, psychotherapy and family therapy.
A therapeutic ethos is at the core of Evolve and runs through everything they do.SarahAgency Decision Maker
Our first residential home sits in the Kent countryside and is registered for four children and young people aged 7 to 17. It provides specialist 24/7 treatment for children with complex psychological, emotional and behavioural needs.
Staffed on a 1:1 basis, with clinical support from our own psychologists and psychotherapists.
A forest school, sensory spaces, and an environment built for children to start making sense of what has happened to them.
Ongoing clinical training and fortnightly reflective practice for the staff team.
Everything you need to work out whether it is for you sits on one page: what fostering involves, what you are paid, and the five steps from first call to approval.
Sector research takes years to formulate and longer to reach practice, so we run our own and react to what it tells us. Our 2024 survey looked at the barriers stopping people from fostering.
Read the 2024 survey ResultsFOSTival is our answer to the referrals we cannot fill: a festival that raises awareness of fostering, challenges the misconceptions about who can do it, and gives something back to the local community.
Over a thousand people came to the first one and the raffle raised £500 for the Young Lives Foundation.
More about FOSTival
We are a growing team and we recruit across fostering, residential and the clinical service. If you share how we work, we would like to hear from you.
Current roles at EvolveSupervising social workers and assessors · residential support workers · clinical psychology, psychotherapy and family therapy · the central team behind them.
Leave your details and one of our fostering advisers will call you back, usually within one working day. No obligation, and no hard sell.
Fostering, the clinical team or residential care, the same team picks it up.
Ask everything you want to ask, then decide in your own time.