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Information and Advice

Contact the Fostering Recruitment and Assessment Team:

Freephone

(+44) 0800 195 1183

Or complete the form below and a member of the team will get in touch:

Fostering Enquiry Form

Out of Hours Help

Advice Line

Freephone
(+44) 0800 040 7998

18.00 to 23.00
Monday to Friday

08.00 to 23.00
Weekends & Bank Holidays

Emergency Duty Team

Emergencies outside office hours:

(+44) 0845 6021043

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Lancashire Fostering Service

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About Fostering

  • Children of all ages (0-18 years of age) and from various cultural and social backgrounds need to be placed in foster care for many different reasons.

     
  • Children's circumstances will vary dependent on their individual needs and family background.  Whatever the circumstances all of the children will be separated from their parents and will need foster carers to help them at a difficult time.

     
  • A foster placement provides the stability and normality that is needed for children in care to develop and help them through difficult times in their lives.  This means we need a range of different foster carers to meet the needs of different children. 

     
  • Our foster carers are from many different backgrounds. You must be at least 21, but it doesn’t matter whether you're:
     
    - married, living with someone or single;
    - living in your own home or renting;
    - able-bodied or living with a disability;
    - working or unemployed;
    - living with your own children or without children;
    - white or from a minority ethnic background; 
    - male or female;
    - heterosexual, gay or lesbian.
     
    What does matter are your personal qualities and what these offer to a child or young person – patience, flexibility, understanding, self-awareness, fairness, determination, being keen to learn and appreciating each child's personality and needs.
Lancashire County Council Phone: 0845 053 0000 email:enquiries@lancashire.gov.uk