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South Coast Fostering Independent Fostering Agency dedicated to caring for children & young people. Recruiting carers now.

19/10/2026

Finding great foster carers matters. Helping great foster carers thrive and continue fostering matters just as much.

Our existing foster carers are some of the most powerful advocates for fostering.

Send us a message to find out what our foster carers say about fostering.

16/10/2026

Fostering isn’t about grand gestures. Sometimes, the smallest acts can make the biggest difference. The routine, the stability, the dinner on the table. The small, everyday acts that make a child feel safe, welcome and valued.

What makes a good foster carer? Someone who shows kindness, patience and willing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have your own children, are a bad cook, or don’t get it right, first time.

Please think for a moment. You already have what it takes. Just share it.

14/10/2026

There is a shortfall of around 6,000 foster carers in the UK. There are hundreds of fostering agencies in the UK, all of whom need to work together to meet this shortfall.

Children benefit when we collectively attract more brilliant people into fostering, support them well and enable them to continue fostering.

If you are interested in becoming a foster carer, send us a message for more information about the process.

12/10/2026

One common issue foster carers often encounter with children in care, centres around mealtimes – refusing to eat, repeatedly asking when the next meal will be, hiding snacks. Those first few months around the dinner table are about reassuring children that there will be a next meal time, there will be food readily available and they will not be punished for not eating.

New carers often worry about not being a good cook; this is not important. What is important is food being offered calmly and taken away without comment when refused.

The battles at mealtime don’t get worked out alone at a kitchen table at 7 in the evening. They get sorted with support from the team – the carer’s social worker, peer support from other carers and formal training around food and health.

Send us a message if you have more questions about the fostering journey

07/10/2026

“I’m too old to foster”  - one of the most common misconceptions we hear from people interested in fostering.

There is no maximum age limit, and many people successfully foster well into their 70s..  Retiring can be a time of reflection and change for people. One of the many ways retired individuals can give back to their communities is by becoming foster parents.

Maybe your children have ‘flown the nest’, or maybe you’ve retired and looking for something to fill your time. Send us a message to start your journey to becoming a foster carer.  

06/10/2026

This week we are hosting ‘Trauma Informed care’ training for our foster carers. We will be looking at the impact of Trauma on children and adults, including Secure Base attachment and what this means.

Before approval you will do preparation training, usually the Skills to Foster course, plus first aid and safeguarding. After approval the learning carries on.

Send us a message for more information about the fostering process

05/10/2026

Ask the question that’s been on your mind. You don’t have to be ready to apply ‘fostering

02/10/2026

Make today the first day of the rest of your life. Send us a message to start your fostering enquiry.

30/09/2026

One phone call can make the world a difference. Fostering a baby means opening your home while their birth family works toward reunification or a permanent plan is established. The goal is to provide a stable, nurturing environment in a crucial time for development.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a spare bedroom – babies can sleep in a cot in your bedroom up until the age of 2.

If you are interested in fostering babies, send us a message and we’ll send you the information you need.

28/09/2026

When people say they could not foster a teenager, they rarely mean they are frightened of slammed doors. What they usually mean, once you get past the first answer, is that they are frightened of putting a lot of love into someone who does not want it.

A sixteen-year-old who has already moved four times will not arrive at your door and hug you. They may be polite (or not) and completely closed for weeks. This doesn’t mean you have failed.

With a younger child you are largely a caretaker. With a teenager you become closer to a supporter, the harder role, because it means watching someone make choices you would not make.

Nobody at SCF expects you to arrive already knowing how to talk a seventeen-year-old down at midnight.  It is completely normal to read all this and think you are not the right person. Most of our best carers of teenagers thought exactly that.

If you are wondering whether you could do this, have a conversation with us. No pressure, no obligation. Send us a message or give us a call on 020 83478741.

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12 Marshgate Lane
London
E152NH

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+442393100396

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