Foster carers needed in Tadley
Tadley is a Basingstoke and Deane town of roughly 11,700 people, pressed up against the Berkshire border. South Coast Fostering covers it, and one of our fostering families lives just outside it.
What do you need to be a foster carer?
A spare bedroom and the time to use it. Tadley has no station of its own, so rail means the bus into Basingstoke first. The town council says those buses run every fifteen minutes at peak times, which is better than most Hampshire towns this size manage.
What stops most people is not the house. It is the belief that you have to be married, own the place or be under fifty. None of that is true, and it costs us carers every year.
Support you'll receive from us
- 24/7 support from your supervising social worker
- £507.50 a week in fostering allowance and fees to foster
- Intensive training program to help you be the best you can be
Where are we recruiting?
Tadley, Baughurst, Pamber Heath, Pamber End, Silchester, Bramley, Ramsdell, Heath End and Kingsclere, and over the county line to Aldermaston and Burghfield. Call 023 8235 2020. Our rates, our support and the January 2026 Ofsted report are on the Hampshire fostering page.
Tadley
Mark and Helen, just outside Tadley
Tadley grew through the 1950s and 60s around the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, which is why a Hampshire town of this size looks into Berkshire for work. Across the county, 372 children were living in independent fostering agency placements in February 2026, roughly 40 per cent of all fostering placements. Hampshire is not covering the need on its own.
Mark and Helen live just outside Tadley and had talked about fostering for years before deciding to take the next step. Their children had grown older, they had a spare bedroom, and they both felt they had the time and patience to support a child who needed stability.
Their first placement was a young girl who arrived late one evening after an emergency. What was expected to be a short stay lasted several months while the local authority worked with her family.
“At first she was very quiet and unsure,” Helen remembers. “But after a few weeks she started to relax. Seeing her confidence grow, making friends at school and feeling safe again made us realise how important fostering can be.”
Since then they have carried on fostering, and say it has become one of the most rewarding things they have done.
“You don’t need to be perfect,” Mark says. “You just need to care, be patient, and give a child a stable place to call home.”
Next Steps
Depending on where you are in your fostering journey, we have a few suggested next steps.
Download Our Guide To Fostering
Arrange for a call back
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