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.
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.
See the latest Fostering Newsletter 
(1.08MB - pdf help)
Inside there are updates, announcements, useful contacts, and much more for foster carers! Published once every school term, this is our summer edition.
Find out more
- Interested in Fostering?
- Information for Foster Carers
- Could you foster a baby or toddler with the possibility of adoption?
- Permanent Fostering
- Family Care Workers Scheme
- Remand Fostering
- DYPAS - Devon Young People's Accommodation Service
- Kinship Care
- Private Fostering
- Parents of Children in Foster Care
- Statement of Purpose
