Short Breaks Fostering

What is short breaks fostering?

Short breaks is a different type of fostering for children with disabilities, but a vital support for families.

Unlike standard fostering where children are in care because they are unable to live at home, children using the short breaks service are not in care and live with their families. But due to their disability and family circumstances, children receive regular breaks with a short breaks foster parent.

This vital support enables families to take a well-earned break to recharge their batteries or have much needed one to one time with other siblings. The service also enables a child with a disability to have new experiences and opportunities.

At Foster People we work with Birmingham Children’s Trust to provide this service to local families. Families are identified as needing the additional support provided by the service by Birmingham Children’s Trust and referred to us at Fostering People.

Our Short Breaks foster parents care for the same children on an on-going basis. Our approach is a holistic one, where foster parents are well known to the children and enjoy coming for ‘sleepovers’ and our foster parents work closely with the children’s family, to provide consistency and to fully understand a child’s needs.

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Short Break Enquiry

Is short break fostering for me?

We are an inclusive fostering agency, recruiting foster parents from all walks of life. Whatever your age, marital status or sexuality you can be considered for fostering.

Short break foster parents need to:

Have a spare bedroom
Be over the age of 21
Be able to live and work in the UK - long term
Have access to your own transport or have excellent public transport locally.
Have a desire to make a positive difference for children
Live in Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell or Wolverhampton
Commit to 6 days a month to care for a child around your other working commitments
Be able to work supportively with children's families.
Have experience of caring for or working with disabilities, additional needs led training is provided.

If this is you, get in touch today!

Why foster with Fostering People?

Fostering People are rated as Outstanding by Ofsted, across all areas of our service and have been since 2013, making us one of the very best independent agencies that you can trust to provide you with the very best support around. Are short break foster parents receive the same great levels of support as all our full time foster parents, what's more some also provide respite fostering too.

One of the best fostering allowances available

Receive £110 per night, per child. Additionally, foster parents pay little or no tax on their allowance.

On-going Training

You don't need to be experienced to foster with us, we offer training right from the start and throughout your assessment and beyond.

Outstanding Support

We have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted since 2013 across all areas of our organisation. You can be confident that you'll be given excellent support any time of the day or night.

A Friendly Welcome

You'll be a member of a friendly local team, where everyone knows each other and meets up regularly for support and fun activities.

Take your first step to becoming a short break foster parent today!

Complete this short form and an experienced member of our team will get back in touch with you, to explain more about our short break service and help you decide if its for you...