What happens now?
If after reading the information contained in this booklet you wish to progress your application to become a Foster Carer with Orange Grove Fosterc
are then please contact us for an informal chat.
If we have not heard from you in 10 days from receiving your application pack we will contact you to enquire if you wish to progress your application with us.
The assessment process
The assessment process enables Orange Grove Fostercare to find out about your potential as a Foster Carer. There are many different qualities you will need to be a Foster Carer. Orange Grove Fostercare will be looking for you and your partner (if applicable) to be competent in a number of important areas. It is important that we know what skills you have to offer, as well as have an understanding about your training and development needs. The assessment process helps us to find out about all of these issues.
All Fostering Agencies are obliged to make rigorous checks into all aspects of prospective carers’ lives and to screen out anyone who could potentially hurt a child or young person. Your Assessing Social Worker will need to get to know a lot about you, your family and any other members of your household.
As a prospective Orange Grove Foster Carer you will be given accurate information about what fostering with us would involve. Fostering will also affect your family and friends as well and the assessment process will help you to give this some thought. The assessment process will also help Orange Grove Fostercare to decide which children/young person to ask you to foster once you have been approved.
What happens during the assessment process
Orange Grove Fostercare has to fulfil certain legal requirements in approving Foster Carers. We have a standardised approach to the assessment process but it will vary slightly with each Assessing Social Worker
