A fostering organisation that is always there for you
We're a family-run fostering organisation rated "Good" by Ofsted. By fostering with us, you can be assured that you're receiving the best training and support from an approachable family team, whenever you need us. If you think you could help a child build an incredible future, we'd love to hear from you.
24/7 Support
You'll be supported with generous pay and allowances, in addition to regular training and support whenever you need it. We have a 24-hour support line, so we are always at the end of the phone no matter what time of the day.
Rated "Good" by Ofsted
By fostering with us, you can be assured that you're being supported by an approachable family team, whenever you need us.
Family Run Organisation
We're an approachable family-run organisation offering the personal touch. We believe that if the carers are properly supported, placements will last, providing stability for the young person in care.
About Us
Everyone at Little Acorns dedicates their combined knowledge and skills to the recruitment, training and support of foster carers and through this, achieve long term, stable placements for children in care.
We strive to offer best in class services to children who enter the care system and those fostering families who are committed to nurturing and caring for some of our most disadvantaged children.
If you're looking to transfer, we can promise that by fostering with us you'll receive the best training and support from an approachable team. We'd love to hear from you!
Why Foster With Us?
Our ethos is all about providing the very best support to our foster carers. We believe that if foster carers are properly supported, placements will last, providing stability for the young person in care to help us build incredible futures.
With our training and support, you can be the difference that will last a lifetime.
Our Support
To help you become the best foster carer you can be, Little Acorns offers the following support to all our foster carers;
- Supervision and support from a dedicated, qualified and suitably experienced. LAFL.
- Supervising Social Worker.
- Support line 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, 365 days of the year.
- Frequent visits and regular telephone contact from the Supervising Social Worker.
- Paid Respite.
- Dedicated Foster Carer Support Group.
- Regular focus group meetings.
- Family Support workers to work with children and young people and children who foster.
- A level of financial support that values the skills of foster carer(s).
Our Fostering Allowance
We treat our foster carers as valued professionals and appreciate foster carers need to be sufficiently funded to ensure the young person in care gets all the opportunities they would otherwise. We provide;
- A standard weekly fostering allowance of £400 per week per child in care. Depending on the needs of the child and their circumstances, additional allowances are available which can increase the allowance to £600 per week.
- Our standard Parent and Child fostering rates are £630 per week.
- Foster carers are largely protected from paying tax on fostering allowances.
- The tax rules change from time to time but at the moment, households receive a fixed £10,000 basic allowance and then an additional tax allowance of £200 per week per child for under 11's and £250 for 11 and over.
- It is important to note that Foster Carers are classified as self-employed and are responsible for paying their own tax. We can recommend a specialist accountant to assist you.