Within Wiltshire Council’s Home Away from Home fostering scheme,
we provide specialised services which includes:
Home Away from Home
Specialist foster carers
Parent and Child
foster carers
Short-Term Emergency
Provision Scheme
(STEPS) foster carers
There are lots of qualities that make an excellent specialist foster carer (see our
information brochure for further details), but our top three musts for becoming
one of our specialist foster carers are:
As a foster carer, you’ll also need to register as self-employed. There are generous tax allowances for foster carers,
which means you won’t have to pay much tax on these earnings.