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You'll join a team of professionals working with you and the child to ensure everyone's wellbeing.
This includes:
Find out more about the needs of looked after children.
Learning and development are an integral part of fostering.
Before you begin fostering, we will offer you an induction to prepare you for your role. You'll start with the training and development standards which set out what you should know and be able to do within the first 12 to 18 months of foster caring.
We offer foster carers a free programme of learning and development from experts, training courses, learning on-line and other methods. These all help to develop skills and knowledge to equip you to keep children safe.
In Dorset, we strive to provide the best service for children in care, foster carers and their families. We do this by:
Fostering with Dorset means you're more likely to be able to care for a child sooner than if you foster through an independent fostering agency.
By choosing to foster for your local authority, you make sure all the council's relevant financial resources go into supporting Dorset's children.
Find out more about what happens next to become a foster carer in Dorset.