Fostering a child with Kent County Council

Fostering is not the same as parenting, but foster carers make the same commitment to giving a child or young person the best possible care and help to achieve and experience positive outcomes

Foster children come from a wide range of backgrounds and may have experienced trauma and loss.  Foster carers follow an agreed plan to support families to rebuild relationships and prepare children to return to their family or move to an alternative permanent home.

To find out more please:

• watch our video below explaining about how to become a foster carer with Kent County Council (KCC)
• attend an open information session
• read carers' unique stories and inspirational experiences, these carers reflect the diverse range of people needed for our children.
• telephone 0845 330 2968 to speak to an adviser.

Do you have the skills to foster? These foster carers do:

Click on the links below to hear the interviews. Please note these are audio only.

• Kent foster carer Denise 
• Kent foster carer Justin 

You can also see videos featuring:

• Our Foster Care Fortnight balloon launch
• Some of our foster carers

Kent Social Services have around 700 foster carers.  These carers are professionals, they develop skills and knowledge through training and experience.

Foster carers are welcomed from all sections of the community with a diversity of experiences. All prospective carers share a common interest in wanting to work with and help children in care, and feel they have something to offer.

Our foster carers are valued and important to KCC and to the many children whose lives are changed because of the safe, caring and supportive foster family in which they live. Foster carers play an important role in helping the children to come to terms with their experiences. We always need new foster carers for our children and young people and encourage you to contact us.

If you have difficulty viewing this video, please visit the video help page.