What is Foster Caring?

Thank you for considering becoming a foster carer with Progress, a leading provider of fostering and residential services for looked-after children in the Midlands region.

There are 50,000 children in foster care on any given day in the UK. There is also an acute shortage of foster carers who are able to:

Children most often require care because of family illness, bereavement, abuse or neglect, and need to be placed quickly with someone nearby who can give them the support and routine they need.

Progress is urgently seeking to recruit resilient, committed carers for vulnerable children, who can lend their support and life experience so the children can build a more positive childhood. In a foster family home, troubled children can attain experience of a supportive, secure and consistent home life.