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Our mission is to create brighter futures for children and young people. We do this by providing fostering, residential and support services where children and young people can feel safe and cared for. We support them to make positive relationships which give them the confidence to succeed.
St Christopher’s foster carers have looked after children in the West Midlands since 2007, with a friendly team based in our West Bromwich office. There is a real family feel to everything we do – we have a small team, so staff and foster carers quickly get to know each other.
Training is continuous throughout your time as a foster carer. We recognise that you are professionals doing an important role, so we offer lots of opportunities for you to develop. Foster carers complete our bespoke social pedagogy training, which really sets St Christopher’s apart from other fostering agencies.
St Christopher’s is on the lookout for people who want to change a child’s life through fostering. We particularly need families who can look after teenagers and / or sibling groups of younger children.
When a group of siblings go into care, sometimes they cannot stay together because they have experienced too many difficult things together. However, they sometimes end up separated simply because there are no foster families with enough space to look after more than one child.
We want to change that – but we need your help. If you have one or more spare bedrooms then please enquire about fostering today.
St Christopher’s has been marvellous, being able to pop in for a chat and getting advice on other things to try. 100% support from all the team.
Our fostering Statement of Purpose for the region can be found here Statement of Purpose St Christopher’s Fostering West Midlands
Barbara has been a qualified social worker since 2003. Before her social worker degree, she worked for six years as a nursery manager. Barbara also worked as a therapeutic social worker and believes that these transferable skills have allowed her to find her vocation within the fostering field. She understands that fostering can be both rewarding and challenging and endeavors to give all of our foster carers the best support possible alongside a listening ear.
Debbie has worked at St Christopher’s since 2008 and has extensive experience in the charity sector. Debbie manages the panel that recommends new carers to foster for St Christopher’s and meets them again when they return for their Annual Reviews. In her personal life she has some experience as a family and friends foster carer so really enjoys working with our fostering teams. She has also volunteered for children’s charities and really enjoys following our foster carers’ journeys.
Rabiyah has been a qualified Social Worker since 2020. Before coming to St Christopher’s, she was based in a Local Authority working with children and young people. Rabiyah believes that all children should be part of a loving and caring home and the opportunity to express their wishes and feelings
I am a supervising social worker and I have been a qualified social worker since 2005. I have a vast experience as a social worker ranging from child protection, children in care, 16 plus, parenting assessment centre and more recently fostering. I have also been a housing services manager for the YMCA which spanned over a 10 year period.
I love working with children, young people, families and foster carers at is really rewarding work. I love been part of the team around the child that helps them to them to reach their potential in life and enables them to see their value.
My parents were in fact foster carers for over 20 years and this is what inspired me to become a social worker and more recently join the fostering service at St Christopher’s.