Supported Fostering Services (SFS)

Joanne and husband have been fostering with SFS for 14 years. She shares her experience of fostering children and young people on a long term, permanent basis. Joanne talks about the support she has from SFS including training opportunities. There has always been someone from SFS available 24/7.

Debbie shares her experience supporting a parent and child placement. Often but not always a mother and baby. She has been fostering for 15 years supporting young mothers to learn the skills to look after their baby, working towards them living independently.

As a relatively new foster parent herself, Charlotte shares her experience with SFS. Starting with the first steps finding out more about fostering. She tells us of the confidence she gained and the support offered to start fostering. Then the fulfilment of seeing children progress.

Supported Fostering Services (SFS) are here to give you the high levels of support, advice and training that you need as a foster parent. In this video, Rose from Cardiff, Leann & Neil from Rhoose and Lizzy from Swansea share their experiences of fostering with SFS.

We’d like to thank Aaron and Nerys who stared in our fostering advert recently shown on Sky in South Wales to help us recruit more foster parents. Due to the high demand from local authorities referring children we urgently need more foster parents to find homes for children in care.

At SFS we are particularly proud of our foster parents. Their endless passion and commitment to caring for vulnerable children never ceases to impress us. One such carer is Rose , who has been a foster parent for teenage boys for over 14 years. “It’s a good life. You get involved in all sorts of

Here at SFS we thought it about time we celebrated the many brilliant foster parents that we’ve been lucky enough to work with over the years. Our carers are as diverse and brilliant as the children we support. It shows that anyone from any walk of life can be a foster parent. First up is