Community Foster Care

When Community Foster Care was established in 1998, its founders had an idea to do things differently, challenging the status quo around foster care recruitment and provision. Through an innovative and creative approach, CFC sought foster carers from the harder to reach groups; our workers immersed themselves in the local communities and challenged the existing ideas about who can foster. The aim was to support communities, provide local foster families for local children, working in areas of economic deprivation, providing employment and improving skills. These principles are held as dearly today as they were then. As a result, we believe in the potential of people and this is always our starting point when we work with people to become foster carers. We welcome people from all backgrounds, communities and circumstances. We believe that children belong in families and their needs are varied. Our children and young people need a wide range of family types.