Stepping Stones Fostering Ltd

Supporting foster parents in foster care

Support and advice for foster parents and foster children

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At Stepping Stones Fostering Ltd, our team has a wealth of experience matching foster parents with looked after children and providing the support needed to ensure children are well taken care of.

Policy & Procedures

Helpful tips and links

I am a foster parent

I am in foster care

Foster Childrens Guide

Where can I find advice about mental health?
Children in foster care have often been through very hard circumstances and these in addition to separation from their parents and family can be difficult to navigate. Here are some useful links for sites where you can learn more about mental health and how you can support the child or children in your care:

Mind
Children’s Society
Young Minds

Useful Information
Where can I find advice about mental health?

Being in foster care can be difficult on your mental health. Your foster parents will do what they can to support you through this.

Here are some useful links for sites where you can learn more about mental health and how you can navigate what you are experiencing:

Childline

Useful Information
Useful Contacts

STEPPING STONES FOSTERING LIMITED
Your view is very important to us. Let us know if you need to talk about how we can help you. Is there anything else that you would like to say or ask. Please call us on telephone number:

0208 478 0840

You can email us:
[email protected]

Write the letter:
Stepping Stones Fostering Limited
106 Sir Robert Peel House,
344-348 High Road
Ilford
IG1 1QP

INFORMATION CHILD LINE
Phone: 0800 1111
Website: https://www.childline.org.uk/

SPEAKING TO CHILDLINE
When you call us on 0800 1111 you’ll get through to a counsellor, they’re there to listen and support you with anything you’d like to talk about. Or you can have a 1-2-1 counsellor chat online.

You can also send us an email from your locker. We’ll try to answer this within a day, but sometimes it can take a little longer.

Childline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So you can talk to us any time. But we might not be able to talk for as long when it’s after midnight.

NSPCC
Website: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/

Post: The NSPCC Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3NH
Email: [email protected] Phone: 0808 800 5000

Text phone: (for people who are deaf or who have a hearing impairment) 0800 056 0566

CORAM VOICE – SPEAK TO AN INDEPENDEDNT ADVOCATE
Website: www.coramvoice.org.uk/

Free Phone from landline or mobile: 0808 800 5792

Tel: 020 7833 5792
Interpreters
Interpreters are available – through Language Line – to allow young people who speak little or no English to access the support of the helpline.
Email an advocate
You can contact an advocate by emailing [email protected]
Send a text to an advocate
If you want to speak to an advocate, you can ask for someone to call you back by sending a text to 07758 670 369.
Write to an advocate
If you want to write to an advocate, then please send your letter to;
Coram Voice, Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ

THE CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE
Website: www.childrenslegalcentre.com
E-mail: [email protected]

CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER FOR ENGLAND
You can get in touch with the children’s Commissioner
Dame Rachel de Souza
By Email: info.[email protected]

Phone: 020 7783 8330 Freephone: 0800 528 0731Address and location: Children’s Commissioner for England
Sanctuary Buildings
20 Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT

OFSTED
Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0300 123 4666

We don’t ignore complaints!
Children’s Rights and Advocacy
If you have any questions or problems that you feel you cannot discuss with your foster family or social worker, there is an Independent Advocacy service

N.Y.A.S. (NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCACY SERVICE)
Website: www.nyas.net
Email: [email protected]
Helpline: 0808 808 1001

You can contact the advocacy worker whenever you need to. The advocacy service can support you in reviews, help you speak up about decisions that affect you and support you in making a complaint, as well as offering advice and information on your rights in care.

BECOME
Care advice line
In care or a care leaver? Looking for help and advice? Talk to us in confidence – online or over the phone.

You can call us on 0800 023 2033 between 10:30am and 3pm, Monday to Friday, or email us at [email protected]

Childrens Guide 0-5 Years
Childrens Guide 6-12 years
Childrens Guide 13 -18 Years

Make a difference with foster care

If you are interested in becoming a foster parent in and around London, you’re in the right place. At Stepping Stones Fostering Ltd we provide all the training, support and advice you need to provide for a vulnerable child. You don’t need to be rich, own a big house or be married. You just need a spare room and space in your life.

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Get in touch if you have a question about foster care

Foster care can be a rewarding and enriching experience for both foster parents and vulnerable children. At Stepping Stones Fostering Ltd, we are here to ensure foster parents are well equipped. If you have a question, please feel free to get in touch today.