Fostering

What is fostering?

Fostering is looking after a child or young person in your own home at a time when they're unable to live with their own families.

Across Rochdale borough we’ve over 170 foster carers providing safe, happy and secure homes to children who really need them ...but we still need more carers!

If you've got room in your heart and room in your home, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us using the details provided.

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Find out the different types of fostering

There are various types of fostering available from emergency, short break care, to long term fostering. There's certain to be something that suits you.

You Can Foster regional campaign

We worked in partnership with 22 other councils for the You Can Foster campaign, to recruit more foster carers across the North West.

Find out about events

Come along and meet our fostering team and existing foster carers to find out if it's right for you.

Could you foster?

There is no typical foster carer. Foster carers come from all different walks of life and are all ages, genders and races.

What we look for is people with the enthusiasm, commitment and time to be able to care for children or young people.

Support and training

We make sure there is excellent support for our foster carers and that you can get all the help, training and advice when you need it.

Listen to real carers speaking about fostering.

To download the audio clips, right-click on the link with your mouse and choose 'Save Target As'

Foster carer Irene Whitehead
Irene talks about her experiences in 21 years of providing a home for local children.