Norfolk Fostering Service foster carers

We're proud to be the largest foster carer agency in Norfolk. We have more than 300 amazing fostering households working with our dedicated teams to give children in care the chance to flourish.

All our foster carers have access to our online handbook which covers our policies and procedures in detail. 

Go to our online fostering handbook

If you have any questions about these or our local guidance documents, contact your supervising social worker. 

Your ongoing learning, development and support

Your ongoing learning and development is very important to us. We run a wide range of training courses for our foster carers here in Norfolk. We give you the opportunity to attend training courses with councils who are part of the Foster East partnership. Your supervising social worker can talk to you more about your continuing professional development as a foster carer. They have up to date information about available training courses.

Every month, approved Norfolk Fostering Service foster carers are emailed about:

• Networking events
• Support groups
• Foster family activity days. This includes activities for children who foster and for children in your care.

Mockingbird

Thanks to Foster East, we've recently introduced Mockingbird, a support network for our foster carers. The Mockingbird Family Model was introduced to the UK by The Fostering Network. Mockingbird gives foster carers, children who foster and children in care a chance to spend time together. Imagine a circle of foster families surrounding a central hub foster family. The Mockingbird's central foster family or hub carer arranges playdates and activity dates. They can also host fostered children for sleepovers to give foster families a break when needed. Our initial Mockingbird group is up and running and we're looking for fostering families to form the next group. If this is something you'd like to get involved with, let your supervising social worker know.