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Fostering

Welcome to Fostering

Devon Fostering  provides safe, caring homes for children and young people who can't live with their birth families. There’s always a demand for our service – so we always welcome new Foster Carers.

If you're optimistic, energetic, a good listener, can handle whatever life throws at you, and love the pace of a hectic full life - then you could be just the person we're looking for.

All you need is a dedication to making vulnerable young lives better, and a spare room.

Take a look around our website - then call us on 0845 155 1013

Come to an Information Evening

Talk to fostering social workers and foster carers, see a presentation, get your questions answered, have a coffee.  But please call us first if you can, so we know how many people to expect.  

Pick the one that's most convenient for you..

Meet some of our foster carers

Hear what fostering for Devon means to them in this short movie.

fostering promo

Meet some of our fostered young people

Watch a music video made by a group of young people, to go with a chosen song from an album they created about being in care.

What's new?

See the latest Fostering Newsletter image - PDF icon (1.23MB - pdf help)

Inside there are updates, announcements, useful contacts, and much more for foster carers!

Published once every school term, this is our winter edition. See more in our newsletter archive.

Contact Us

Interested in becoming a foster carer?
Telephone
Call 0845 155 1013

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