What is Fostering Friendly?
The Fostering Network’s Fostering Friendly Employers scheme offers businesses of any size a chance to make a difference for foster carers and the children they care for in their local communities while improving support for their own employees.
Fair Ways are promoting the Fostering Friendly campaign in the Portsmouth area.
Nearly 40 per cent of foster carers combine fostering with other work. Those who do, tell us a supportive employer can make all the difference, enabling them to balance employment with looking after children.
I'm confused. Why are Fair Ways promoting this campaign?
As a local Fostering charity, Fair Ways are seeking to lead the campaign for change in our local community. We want Portsmouth to be known as a region that is committed to supporting children in care.
With very few adjustments and adaptations, local employers can sign up to become a Fostering Friendly Employer with The Fostering Network.
We hope that this will help bridge the gap and provide more opportunities for people to make a difference to children in care, as there is currently a need for more than 6,500 Foster Carers in the UK.
Sign Up To Become a Fostering Friendly Employer
The Fostering Network’s Fostering Friendly Employers scheme offers businesses of any size a chance to make a difference for foster carers and the children they care for in their local communities and improve support for their own employees at the same time.
Becoming a Fostering Friendly Employer is a straightforward process, but it can have a significant impact on your employees and on fostering.
Complete our initial sign up form, and our team will be in touch to organise an initial call
Once we have a date in the diary, our team will send you our draft policy and other reading materials
We meet - and answer any of your questions about becoming a Fostering Friendly Employer
You adapt the draft policy to meet your needs, and send your policy to The Fostering Network and Fair Ways who will ratify it and add you to the register of approved organisations
(fosteringfriendly@fostering.net and info.fostering@fairways.co)
You're now a Fostering Friendly Employer, and can download and display new branding
We will send you a brand pack, along with a social media plan to celebrate this new achievement with your followers and helping make Portsmouth a leading Fostering city!
Moving forwards, we are happy to come and speak to your employees about Fostering to promote the use of the policy, and provide you any materials you will need to advertise the policy internally
Benefits of Being Fostering Friendly
Once you are approved, you can display your Fostering Friendly logo with pride.
The Fostering Network will publish a list of all Fostering Friendly Employers and will help promote and celebrate your new status.
Fostering Friendly Employers can improve support for staff, making workplaces friendlier for foster carers, benefiting the children in their care and also making it easier for people to consider fostering.
You will share in the celebration of foster care and the vital role it has in transforming children’s lives.
Every year we present a Fostering Friendly Employer with a prestigious Fostering Excellence Award.
Combining Work
It is possible to combine fostering with other work, if fostering agencies and employers are supportive and flexible.
This report highlights the importance of fostering services thinking differently about how they recruit and retain people to care, and provide a positive role model, for some of our most vulnerable children.
Take the First Step
Begin your journey, and complete our sign up form using the link below.
Our team will then be in touch to walk you through the process of becoming a Fostering Friendly Employer, or just help you to find out the important information!
Enquire to become a foster carer
Join and receive world-class training and support, from an organisation that cares.
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