Volunteer Fostering Panel Member
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About Foster Care Matters
Foster Care Matters is a brand-new fostering agency with a therapeutic emphasis which is being set up as part of the Adoption Matters family. We will assess, train, approve and support foster families and the children placed with them in conjunction with our Centre for Fostering and Adoption Support (CFAS).
Adoption Matters is a registered children’s charity and one of the largest voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs) in the UK. We recruit, train and support individuals and families as adopters and offer them ongoing support and training for as long as they need it. We also provide support to birth families and adopted adults. Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ since 2008, the ONLY adoption service in the North of England rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted 5 times in a row.
For more information on the management team and our board of trustees, visit the Adoption Matters Website.
Volunteer Adoption Panel Members
We are looking for voluntary panel members for the central list of our brand-new fostering service, Foster Care Matters. You will need either personal or professional experience of foster care/residential care or adoption. If you have experience as a panel member that is great but not essential.
Foster Care Matters panels are held regularly both in person and remotely online via Teams. The panel reviews every fostering application and makes a recommendation to our Agency Decision Maker regarding the applicant’s suitability to foster. This is part of the legal process to be an approved foster carer.
At Foster Care Matters, we want to make sure that our panels are warm, friendly and approachable and we know how much prospective adopters appreciate the sense of their applications being considered by people similar to themselves. We also recognise that we place children with a wide range of needs from a huge variety of backgrounds. As such, we encourage expressions of interest from all areas of the community. Under adoption regulations, people who have adopted need to wait at least 12 months after the making of any adoption order before they can join a panel.
Please be advised that our panel members are volunteers and as such while travel expenses can be claimed, it is an unpaid role
Size: 51 - 100
