How to Get into Foster Care

​Meet Katie Waldegrave, who runs Now Foster which is a brilliant organisation helping people to learn about and get into foster care.  

​Many of our members are interested in what they can do to make a difference to people’s lives, and foster care feels like one of the problems in the UK that would really benefit from members in our community getting involved with.

​There are more options to help than just full time fostering, so in this session, we’ll hear more from Katie Waldegrave who set up Now Foster in 2024. She is on a mission to open people’s eyes to the different ways you can support.

​In this session, we’ll hear more about:

• ​The size and scale of the issue in the UK. Currently, many siblings are being split up and we have a massive shortage of people to offer support.

• ​Whilst this is not a job people do for money, people are paid to look after children who need care, so we will discuss this aspect.

• ​The criteria and assessment process to become a foster parent.

• ​What the alternatives look like – full-time care, weekend care and more.