Welcome to the Rural Foster Care website

Rural Foster Care is an Independent Fostering Agency (IFA), founded in 2002 by 2 social workers each with over 20 years of experience who wanted to provide a comprehensive, local and personal service to children and young people ‘looked after’ by the local authorities.

...to provide a stable and consistently high quality of care, in a range of settings, where children and carers are equally valued, supported and encouraged to grow and develop.

Based originally in Devon and Cornwall, Rural Foster Care expanded into Somerset in 2005 and Hampshire and Dorset in 2006. We have carers throughout the area, predominantly from the rural and coastal community.

Rural Foster Care works alongside local authorities to place children from all over the South of England including London, Midlands, Wales and South West.

Rural Foster Care is registered with Ofsted under the Care Standards Act 2000 and was last inspected in October 2006, click here for a copy of the latest report (pdf)