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Fostering in Blackburn Foster Carers

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Information about fostering.

We provide comprehensive information about foster care and help you to reduce the risk of you choosing the wrong fostering agency.

Fostering agencies.

From your contact form, one of our social work experts will match you and your situation with the most suitable fostering agencies in Blackburn, on our UK Independent Agency Database.

Types of fostering, allowances, pay, babies, jobs.

Just like people, Fostering Agencies are not all the same. They have different support, allowances, quality of training, and access to respite care and support groups.

Not all agencies foster babies, some prefer to look after teenagers, some agencies expect you to be at home full time, others are happy if you have another job.

Want to foster? – Let’s get together.

To find out more and to take the next step towards a career as a foster carer, use our no obligation, free agency matching service by completing our online eligibility quiz, and get fostering right first time!

Fostering Statistics: North West

Total Children in Care, North West 2020
Foster Care Placements, North West 2020

The following statistics are from the total number of children in care in the North West, and not exclusively those in Foster Care.

Children with disability : 300
2%
Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers : 420
3%

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Popular Placement Types: Vary in this area.

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What Could You Earn?

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Did you Know - Blackburn Foster Carers?

The origins of Blackburn’s name might be from Old English and “black burn”, or “black stream“. Blackburn had a grammar school from 1514, James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny was a weaver in Blackburn and the railway arrived in 1846.

Horse-drawn street trams started in 1881, Gandhi visited during his campaign to boycott British textiles and following a murder in 1948, Blackburn was the first town to undertake the mass finger-printing.

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