Brand development and foster carer recruitment for local authorities and charities.
With the number of children coming into care rising and local authorities receiving fewer enquiries and applications from potential foster carers, we understand the mounting pressures that fostering services are under. There simply aren’t enough people ready and willing to be foster carers in the current climate and this needs to change.
Local authorities are also facing increasing challenges when it comes to securing and retaining enough foster carers for children and young people coming into care. And because placements made through an independent fostering agency are significantly more expensive than those the council can make directly, effective foster carer recruitment is needed now more than ever to help fostering services make savings without impacting the quality of their service.
As foster carer marketing specialists, having worked with local authorities across the country to strengthen their brand positioning and recruit new foster carers, we recognise that a long-term approach to foster carer recruitment is needed to build an audience of prospective foster carers for the future.