Find out all about fostering!
Learn about the different types of fostering, who can foster, how you become a foster carer and what makes a good foster carer. All your questions answered!
What is fostering?
Foster carers provide love, care, support and stability for children and young people who aren’t able to live with their birth parents.
Who can foster?
There is no such thing as a typical foster carer. If you have the room in your life and home to provide a stable and loving home for a child, fostering could be a part of your future!
Become a foster carer
Learn all about the fostering assessment process, the different stages involved and how we'll support you through it.
Fostering Babies and Pre-School Children
Babies and young children need safe, nurturing homes where they can feel loved, secure and able to thrive.
Part-Time Fostering
Short stays or respite foster care provides temporary care for children.
Emergency Fostering
When children need somewhere safe to stay unexpectedly, emergency foster carers provide immediate care, reassurance and stability during a difficult time.
Fostering Refugees
Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and Young People
Short-Breaks Fostering
Short breaks fostering is a rewarding way of making a long lasting difference in the lives of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Frequently asked questions
Here's a few answers to the questions we get asked the most. Please don't rule yourself out! There's no such thing as a daft question.
Fostering Friendly
We are delighted to be a Fostering Friendly employer and encourage Liverpool organisations and anyone thinking about fostering to find out more.