Home Education and children Fostering Who can foster? At Leicestershire county council, we believe that lots of people who live in Leicestershire have the skills, knowledge and experience to become great foster carers – and we would love to talk to you! If you’ve ever thought about fostering, whether you’re thinking about it for now or in the future, then get in touch. We’ll be able to help you to decide if fostering could fit into your life and provide lots of information too, at your pace.We consider each person’s interest on an individual basis, so please don’t rule yourself out…count yourself in! You can be a foster carer regardless of whether you:are single, married or unmarriedare heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgenderidentify as having a disabilityare employed or receiving benefitshave birth children, or notare a home owner, or live in rented accommodationhave any ethnic or religious backgroundYou need to be at least 21 years old but there is no upper age limit to be able to foster. Help us improve this page Hide content Was this page helpful? Yes It was helpful, but Please select a reasonthere's a broken link it's hard to understand it's incorrect it's outdated it's too long Other No Please select a reasonit didn't answer my question it's not detailed enough it's hard to understand it's incorrect it's outdated it's too long Other Details Email address We’ll only use this to ask for more detail if we need to.