We believe that all children and young people have the right to grow up in a safe, supportive and loving family. Our foster carers provide the right environment and levels of support to make a real and lasting difference to children’s lives. Together, we help young people develop a strong sense of identity, pursue a range of hobbies and interests and reach their full potential.
What do we provide?
Aspris Fostering Services provide high-quality, stable foster care placements in warm and welcoming family homes across the West Midlands for:
- Children and young people up to the age of 18
- Sibling groups (brothers and sisters)
- Parent and child placements
- Unaccompanied asylum seeking children
By delivering a comprehensive package of support, we help vulnerable children unlock their potential and face their adult lives with confidence and a sense of worth.
- A high volume of referrals
- Very low vacancy rates
- Very short placement waiting lists
- Greater scope to match children to the right family
Outcomes for children
We believe in supporting young people in the way that best suits their individual needs. This approach is backed up by the results and outcomes we deliver for children in our care:
- Very stable foster placements
- Placement length three times longer than the national average
- Excellent education and health outcomes
- Children are placed locally
- No unplanned endings for placements (2013-2015)
- A high number of ‘staying put’ arrangement
Fostering locations
Aspris Fostering Services is currently recruiting foster carers across the West Midlands - from North Staffordshire to South Hereford, and from the Welsh border over to Warwickshire and Coventry. Locations include:
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Coventry
- Dudley
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Sandwell
- Solihull
- Staffordshire
- Telford and Wrekin
- Walsall
- Warwickshire
- Wolverhampton
To find out more or apply to become a foster carer, please click here.
The Black Care Experience Charter
As a fostering agency based in the West Midlands, we serve a diverse and multi-cultural population. We consider it our responsibility to educate ourselves with regards to the unique set of challenges which face black children in care, so that we can better support our foster families and children.
The Black Care Experience Charter serves to recognise and promote the experience of the ‘black’ child in care (foster and residential). They seek to ensure that the cultural needs of black children in care are recognised, valued and met. They also promote that, whilst all children in care face barriers to achieving their potential, the black child in care often, if not always, will have additional barriers to overcome.
Find out more about The Black Care Experience Charter on their website here.
Financial benefits for foster carers
Alongside our excellent levels of training and support, we offer our foster carers a competitive rewards package, including:
- Weekly payments
- Paid holiday allowance
- Generous tax allowances
- Paid membership of Foster Talk
- Paid respite care up to a maximum of 21 days per year
Applying to become a foster carer
When you become a foster carer with Aspris Fostering Services, you become part of a dedicated team, passionate about giving young people the support they need to reach their potential. In return for your commitment, we offer unrivalled support, comprehensive training and a substantial rewards package to ensure that you flourish in your role.
Whether you are new to fostering or an experienced carer, we will support and encourage you every step of the way. To find out more or apply to become a foster carer, please click here.
Download our Statement of Purpose
To view our Statement of Purpose, please click here.
About Aspris Children's Services
Aspris Fostering Services is an independent fostering agency and is part of Aspris Children’s Services. Aspris Children’s Services is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of specialist education and residential care services. We aim to provide safe, stable, therapeutic placements so that children can reach their full potential and face their adult lives with confidence and a sense of their own worth.
At Aspris we believe we inspire and motivate, and our five behaviours (Aspirational, Positive, Fun and Friendly, Courageous and Innovative) help us achieve and are core to everything our Foster Carers, staff and the children and young people we support do.
We see the potential in every child and young person. What we do at Aspris is understand that everyone we support is unique, shaped by their life experiences and each with their own goals, dreams and ambitions – no matter how big or small. Our dedicated foster carers will not only support them to achieve their aspirations, but, where possible, to exceed them. That’s the Aspris difference.