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Fostering in Hounslow

Imagine changing the life of a young person. Imagine being there for when they start school, college or university. Imagine giving them the support to help them find their own feet and gain the confidence they may have lost. Fostering in Hounslow means making a difference to the lives of children in your local area, by providing them with stable, safe and caring homes.

To say that fostering is rewarding is an understatement, and we are proud of our team of foster carers who take vulnerable children into their homes and help turn their life around. You can choose how you want to make a difference, as there are different types of foster care. Children spend different lengths of time in care depending on their circumstances, and whether or not they are able to return to their birth family. Unfortunately, many young people require foster care for long periods due to neglect or abuse. TACT are recruiting foster carers in Hounslow in order to provide care and guidance for these vulnerable young people.

Meet Our Team

We have a great team of staff who provide support to our foster carers in Hounslow. Priscilla Makambe, our area manager for the area, started working for TACT in 2019. Priscilla previously worked in Local Authority Child Protection and Children with Disabilities Teams before moving into fostering more than 15 years ago.

We cover a wide area in and around the London Borough of Hounslow, including Chiswick, Brentford, Isleworth, Feltham – and many other areas in the borough.

Priscilla looks after our fostering hounslow team

Why Foster in Hounslow with TACT?

TACT is the UK’s largest dedicated fostering charity. We have been providing nurturing and caring homes for vulnerable children since 1993.

As we provide a service to local authorities, we work closely with Hounslow London Borough Council to help find caring homes for children. We can only do this with a fantastic team of foster carers. That’s why we reinvest our surplus income into providing more training and support for our fostering households. We also provide additional support over and above what is required of a fostering charity, such as a dedicated education service, health service and an online foster carer portal.

We’re more than just a fostering agency – we go above and beyond to look after our foster carers and the children they provide care for. Our TACT Connect service ensures that when children leave the care system, they have TACT’s support for life.

This is why 98% of our carers would recommend us to others thinking of fostering.

Rated As ‘Good’ By Ofsted

Following an inspection in March 2022, Ofsted have announced that TACT London, Essex and Hertfordshire has been rated ‘Good’ for its work with foster carers and looked after children.

“Children thrive and make good progress from their starting points. This is because they share positive and trusting relationships with their foster carers. These positive relationships help children to feel safe and secure.” – Ofsted 2022

24/7 Support

When you start fostering with TACT, you will be allocated your own Supervising Social Worker who will provide most of the support you need. In addition, we offer a full out-of-hours support service for total peace of mind.

We also reinvest surplus income into other platforms to ensure that you always have a support network around you. We understand that the better we support you, the better you will be able to provide the care and guidance required to change children’s lives.

This is what we provide:

  • Full 24/7 support. Your own Supervising Social Worker, along with our out-of-hours support service.
  • Foster carer portal. An online information hub, providing advice and training to help you with your day-to-day life as a foster carer.
  • Education service. Ensuring that the young people in your care receive the educational opportunities they are entitled to.
  • Health service. Our health service was established in order to provide young people in your care with ongoing physical and mental health monitoring.
  • Support groups. Our support groups operate all over West London, and provide you with a local outlet to meet other carers in your area, share experiences and knowledge, and even make new friends!
  • Support for young people. Our Children’s Resource Workers provide the children in your care with additional support, activities and events.
  • Supporting your own children. We understand that your own children play an important role in the fostering household. As such, our Children Who Foster events provide your own children with an opportunity to socialise with other young people who make an amazing contribution to fostering.
  • Peer support. In some circumstances, peer-to-peer support may be available. These work by pairing newly approved foster carers with experienced TACT carers to provide another level of support.

Fostering Allowance Hounslow

Foster carers are highly skilled people, and our fees and allowances reflect this.

Our Hounslow fostering allowance ensures that you receive both a foster carer fee, and an allowance for each child you provide care for. The actual fee and allowance that you will receive will be dependent on a number of factors – such as the type of foster care you are providing, the number of children that you care for, their age, as well as the complexity of their needs.

You will also receive additional payments for children’s birthdaysholidays and religious festivals. In addition to your fostering allowance, we also pay long service awards and a Refer a Friend fee (if you recommend someone who then goes on to be an approved foster carer with us).

Here are some examples of the weekly Hounslow fostering allowances you could expect to receive when you have a young person placed with you:

Hear From Our Foster Carers in Hounslow



“There should be enough love to go around”

Fostering can be challenging, but seeing the difference you can make to a young person’s life is so rewarding. My home is a happy one, and my sons have been able to adapt well to fostering situations.

“As a foster carer I try to support every child’s needs.”

Mohammed is a single male carer who started fostering after his own experiences growing up.

“Fostering has bought so much happiness and laughter to our home”

It is a difficult balancing act – being a father to her but not making her feel like I am trying to replace that special relationship that she has with her birth father. We always say that she has not lost anyone, but instead she now has two families who love her.

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