HomeFoster Carers: The Scheme
The Scheme
Fostering Achievement gives you independent access to advice and funding - helping you become 'first educators'.
As a foster carer, you play a crucial role in helping children and young people to achieve their potential. We want to make sure you have access to the tools you need to encourage and support those in your care.
Educational/training credits of around £800 per year are available in respect of children aged 0 to 17 who have been in care for three months or more. This includes children just beginning school, those whose education has been disrupted, and those with special educational needs or disabilities.
Credits are available to help you provide educational materials in the foster home. This could be a computer with access to the internet, musical instruments, sports equipment or educational books and toys. You can apply for a credit on behalf of one child in particular (for example, to provide a guitar for a rock-mad teenager) or on behalf of everyone in the home (for example, to provide a computer on which everyone can do their homework).
If you think a child in your care would benefit from personal tuition, either in an academic subject or extra-curricular activity such as music or sport, we can help to provide this. The project can also assist young people to learn to drive.
We can provide additional support if a child in your care has special educational needs, or a disability.
We are unable to provide funding for resources that would normally be provided by the Education and Library Board or Health and Social Services.
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