The Foster Care Co-operative

The Foster Care Co-operative is a not for profit foster care agency, offering quality fostering placements within the UK, combining integrity and commitment with positive outcomes for children. On any one day there are more than 62,000 children living with foster families across the UK, and every 22 minutes a child comes into care in need of a foster family. It is estimated that a further 8,600 foster carers are needed this year alone to provide the supportive, stable and caring home for these vulnerable children. The Foster Care Co-operative (FCC) has been placing children in family homes for fifteen years. As a not for profit foster care agency, any surplus income FCC makes is re-invested to provide more foster care support, more training and towards recruiting more foster carers, to give a stable home environment to more children. The FCC is above all child orientated; taking great care to match children with foster carers. There is no pressure to place children in order to maximise profit, with a special culture based on valuing foster carers and dedication to providing mutual support that will change a childs life. The stability of placements with FCC is more than six times higher than the national average. Above all FCC adheres to the traditional Co-operative values; open, honest, local, loved and trusted.