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Could this be your most meaningful role yet? Become a Lleol Transitions Foster Carer with Foster Wales Flintshire. Rooted in community. Built on relationships. Focused on children.

With Foster Wales Flintshire, you can use your experience to offer stability and belonging to a young person who needs it most. This isn’t just fostering; this is Lleol Transitions Fostering, and it could be the most rewarding thing you’ll ever do.

What is Lleol Transitions Fostering?

Lleol simply means local in Welsh. That local connection is essential for a young person’s identity, sense of belonging, and future. We are the local authority fostering team in Flintshire — not a private agency — focused on the children in our area and committed to finding them the right homes in their own communities. Some young people may need more than traditional foster care and require time, understanding, and calm, consistent support to adjust to family life.

That’s where you come in.

Could you become a Lleol Transitions Foster Carer?

We’re looking for people with experience — personal or professional — in helping children and young people thrive. You may have worked in schools, care homes, youth work, or healthcare; you may have walked alongside children through challenging times. If you can provide a nurturing home and offer full-time care, we’ll be with you every step of the way.

• Offer a stable, nurturing home environment and care for a young person full-time

• Engage with ongoing support from the local Foster Wales Flintshire team and a linked Lleol Support Foster Carer for practical help

• Participate in specialist training and therapeutic learning opportunities

• Take part in regular peer support groups and wellbeing activities

• Access to the Fostering Network, the Mockingbird community model (where appropriate), and additional discounts and membership benefits

• Demonstrate commitment to learning, reflecting, and working closely with a professional team

Financial and other benefits

• £50,000 annual financial support package
• Up to £258.79 weekly fostering allowance (over £13,453 annually)
• Additional allowances for birthdays, holidays & Christmas (up to £1,035 annually)

Access and support

• Ongoing support and guidance from your local Foster Wales Flintshire team
• A linked Lleol Support Foster Carer for hands-on, practical help
• Specialist training and therapeutic learning opportunities
• Regular peer support groups and wellbeing activities
• Membership to The Fostering Network and access to the Mockingbird community model (where appropriate)
• 50% Council Tax discount
• Membership to the Blue Light Card for nationwide discounts
• Recognition and rewards through the CareFriends app

• Experience supporting children or young people
• A stable, nurturing home environment
• A spare bedroom to dedicate to a young person
• Full driving licence
• Ability to commit to caring for a young person full-time
• Willingness to learn, reflect, and work closely with a professional team

We generally ask that you don’t have children under 16 living at home, but we’ll assess each situation individually as part of the matching process.

Make a lasting difference right where you live.

You’ve already been supporting young people in some way. Now you have the chance to do it in the most personal and lasting way possible — offering family, belonging, and a place to call home.

Foster Wales Flintshire is your local authority fostering team. We’re here for our community, for our children, and for people like you.

Ready to find out more?

Let’s talk about whether Lleol Transitions Fostering could be right for you.