Fostering TACT

TACT

About us

The Adolescent and Children’s Trust (TACT) is the UK’s largest charity and voluntary agency providing fostering and adoption services. Our core work involves providing high quality and well supported fostering or adoptive families for children and young people in the care of local authorities. Working in partnership with local authorities from our offices across England, Wales and Scotland, we are dedicated to providing creative, effective and outcome-focused services. We also campaign on behalf of children and young people in care, carers and adoptive families.

"Children and young people are at the heart of everything we do. Our job is to help overcome the prejudice that looked after children suffer and often help heal the damage done that led to them coming into care in the first place. Our foster carers, adopters and staff work together to ensure children’s needs are met. We have experienced not only considerable growth but an improvement in quality leading to excellent inspection outcomes and meeting the government standards for Customer Services Excellence. I am proud to be working for TACT and be part in helping looked after children meet their dreams and aspirations."

Kevin Williams, TACT Chief Executive.

Interested in fostering? TACT is the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity. If you have a spare bedroom, time and energy to give a young person, register your interest now!

Fostering Services

What is fostering?

Fostering is a way of providing a safe and stable home and family life for children and young people who are unable to live with their birth family. Children and young people may not be able to live with their own parents or extended family for a variety of reasons. These could include ill-health, relationship problems, family breakdown or situations where a child or young person is at risk of significant harm.
What we offer

Our staff are all highly experienced and dedicated – some have been foster carers themselves. You’ll receive a high level of support from your allocated Supervising Social Worker as well as regular phone calls and visits, 24 hour, 7 days a week support, training and development, generous allowances. You will also be able to share your experience with other carer through our carers' support groups. We offer children and young people's support groups for the children of our carers too.
Requirements

If you have (a) spare bedroom(s), childcare experience, understanding, patience and a sense of humour and want to change a young person’s life, read on to find out more about what TACT can offer you.