We’ll ensure that you are thoroughly prepared, well-supported and given ongoing opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills throughout your journey with us.

Carer support

Continual learning and development is an important part of your role as a foster carer. A high-quality training programme is offered before your first placement, and you will receive ongoing opportunities to further upskill.

Find out more about training

We pay a generous weekly allowance per child, depending on their level of need, to cover the expenses of caring for a child or young person and the time you spend looking after them.

Fostering payments and allowances

Fostering with us means that you are more likely to be able to care for a child sooner than if you foster through a private or independent fostering agency.

We always prioritise our own approved carers and approach them first before talking to other agencies because we know our network of foster carers are fully prepared and have been well supported from day one of their journey to foster, and continue to be throughout their fostering career. 

Mockingbird supports children, young people and foster families to build a resilient and caring community and replicates the wider extended family model. It is a global award winning and pioneering fostering programme led by The Fostering Network in the UK that delivers sustainable foster care.

Mockingbird project