Resilience fostering

Resilience foster carers provide long term homes for our more complex children who are either at risk of entering or currently living in residential care. These children may have challenging behaviours or emotional difficulties as a result of their early childhood experiences or disabilities and we are looking for people who have experience of supporting children with these needs.

Resilience fostering is one of our specialist schemes and we provide a fostering salary of between £39,544-£42,788 per annum depending the age of the child you are matched with. 

The aim of resilience fostering is to build children's resilience through careful matching with their foster carers, planned introductions before they move in, regular monthly meetings when they first move in and then on-going support from the intensive fostering team. 

One of our resilience foster carers Neil, talks about why he became a resilience foster carer and shares his experience of fostering with us.

 


Who can be a Resilience Foster Carer?

  • You will need to be over 21 and have a spare bedroom.
  • Be available for a child on a full-time basis
  • Have personal or professional experience of managing children with complex needs or disabilities. This could include, a teacher, teaching assistant, learning support assistant, residential support worker, social worker, family support worker, experienced foster carer.
  • Ideally, there will be no other children living in the household, but we will consider children who are settled and assessed as having the ability to manage living with a child with complex needs or disabilities.

Benefits of being a Resilience Foster Carers

  • You will have a linked Short Break Carer, and you will have up to 36 days short breaks each year. The linked short break carer will arrange with you a series of planned short breaks, and will also attend regular professional meetings for their linked children.
  • You will receive an enhanced financial package, where you will receive £572.92 per week on approval. This retained fee will begin at point of approval, whilst we explore matching you to a child. You will then receive up to £249.93 per week once the child comes to live with you.
  • Your household will be allocated a supervising social worker, who will provide you with weekly support visits during the first 6 weeks of a child living with you, and monthly thereafter, unless more are needed.
  • You will receive 4 supervisions per year where your support, learning, and development will be reviewed. You will also have a monthly support group with other resilience foster carers.

Why become a resilience foster carer?

  1. We don’t make a profit from fostering - all of our funding goes to helping young people.
  2. You will be helping us to keep a local child local, with a family rather than in residential care.
  3. We pay up to £42,788 per annum for resilience foster carers enabling our carers to foster full-time. You can find out more about our other fostering payments on our foster care pay page.

Ready to take the next step or looking for more information about resilience foster care?

You can Enquire Now or call 0800 169 2061 today and we’ll help answer your questions about resilience fostering. 

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