There are at any one time more than 65,000 children in the UK in the care system and as the population grows so does the number of children requiring foster homes.

We provide good quality and innovated family placements to children in care. Sunbeam is an established Independent Fostering Agency that provides a range of fostering placements to meet the needs of looked after children. The organisation is managed by a team of experienced, qualified professionals who provide innovative and needs led service to children and young people in foster care.

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Foster Care Fortnight #FCF19 (13 to 26 May)

Foster Care Fortnight™ is The Fostering Network’s annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and to show how foster care transforms lives. It is also the UK’s biggest foster carer recruitment campaign.

Fostering children is a great service to brighten their future. Fostering is defined as taking temporary parental responsibility for a child outside of your own family. This is usually a child that has been placed into the care of the local authority who will then seek to settle the child into a family home environment. Becoming a foster carer with Sunbeam will be a life changing and pleasant journey for you and the children you are going to foster.

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Foster Carer

Luton

This job is probably one of my favourites. Every day is different, every day has new challenges and everyday has new rewards. It's not always easy but each challenge you go through with the child bonds you and makes you both stronger for each other.

Hannah and Kashif

London

We have been fostering for the last 8 years and feel proud to be a part of the Sunbeam family. At the beginning, we thought it's a tough job, but the skills to foster initial training and the whole assessment procedure to become a carer was interesting, and it gave us both a broad insight into both the tough and rewarding side of what we were likely to encounter.

Asma

London

"Fostering is a rewarding experience as it allows you to actually make a difference for a child/young person. I feel happy being able to make such a difference whether it is for one day or several years."

Karen Thorn

Southampton

"When they told me that I had been approved for fostering, well I just cried. I was an emotional wreck and was so happy that I just couldn’t hold back my very, very, happy tears."

Sunbeam Fostering Agency

You can make a difference,
together we can brighten children’s lives

What we do

Experienced

Effective Matching

Full support

Competitive Allowance