Help a Leeds child blossom your way with Foster4Leeds
Added: 22/01/2025
Leeds City Council
Foster4Leeds is urgently looking for new people to become foster carers and offer a safe and loving home to children and young people in Leeds. We have a variety of fostering options that can suit you and your circumstances.
If you are over 21 and have a spare bedroom, you could be eligible to foster. There are different types of fostering which could suit your lifestyle, including short breaks, emergency care, and support care.
Our Foster4Leeds team will support you on every step of your journey, and you’ll have access to exclusive benefits for you and your family.
For carers Dom and Steph, their journey started as disability short breaks carers, before changing to full-time, short-term carers for children with disabilities.
On fostering, they said: “We love the relationship we have built with our young person. That relationship is everything and it brings us joy every day to see how much progress he is making in all areas.
“People often say that our young person is ‘lucky’ to be placed with us; but he genuinely enriches our lives just as much (if not, more) than what we do his.”
And on what to say to people considering fostering: “We would say, ‘Do it!’. It is undoubtedly the best decision we ever made in our lives. We get to have an amazing young person in our lives, whilst being supported to navigate the trickier times by our social worker.
To read their full story, find out about the fostering options available for you, learn more about benefits and support, and see upcoming information event dates and locations, visit https://bit.ly/4g02mcj