Fostering is both challenging and rewarding and you will need to be passionate about making a difference in children lives. Good foster carer’s work as part of a wider team that includes child care professionals and other agencies to help young people gain the best outcomes.

Ascent foster carers are well trained and supported to face the complexities of caring for somebody else’s child. By joining Ascent fostering you will have access to excellent training, therapeutic support and professional guidance to assist you on your journey to becoming a confident, skilled and competent foster carer.

We need people from all communities, and all walks of life to become foster carers can you ‘take the step ?‘

What makes us different?

Our 25 years of social care experience, have taught us some fundamental principles in achieving success for looked after children and supporting foster carers in the tremendous work they do.

• At Ascent Fostering, all our carers are valued, listened to and are key members in our team
• We recognise that looking after children and young people who have suffered trauma and abuse, require nurturing and skilled carers. We equip all our carers for this task by offering an intensive Therapeutic Fostering course, as well as a comprehensive training package
• Our professional team include a Child Therapist and Clinical Psychologist who work directly with our foster carers, offering therapeutic supervision, and therapy to young people.
• All young people placed with our carers are assigned a personal mentor and can access a number of extra curricular clubs and activities via our partner agency, Reaching Higher
• Ascent pay competitive fees.