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Every pound tracked. Every child protected. Every decision defensible.
Children's services are under more pressure than ever. The day-to-day reality for social workers and carers is buried in admin, while finance leads struggle to see where placement budgets are actually going until it's too late.
Social workers and foster carers spend hours chasing receipts, logging expenses and processing manual approvals — time that should go to children and families.
Financial data sits locked in case-management systems with no operational view. Overspends surface in quarterly reports — long after anything can be done about them.
Case recording, note-writing and report drafting eat into direct work. Less than a fifth of a social worker's week is typically spent face-to-face with families.
Fosterwith brings the operational side of fostering together — so councils and agencies stop stitching spreadsheets, email threads and finance modules into something that just about works.
Replace the receipt-and-reimbursement scramble between councils and foster carers. Carers log spend from their phone, it's auto-categorised against the placement, and routine items clear automatically — so social workers only review what genuinely needs a human eye.
See placements, budgets and commitments in one operational dashboard — not buried in a finance module no one logs into. Spot pressure on a budget line while there's still time to act, and walk into a budget meeting with the numbers already in hand.
Fosterwith drafts case notes, visit summaries and reports from a recording or a few prompts — formatted to your templates, ready for the practitioner to review and finalise. The same AI assistance councils are already seeing transform admin time, built right into your workflow.
Everyone sees what they need, at the right level of detail. Spending logged by a carer flows up to the social worker who approves it, and rolls into the oversight a service manager needs — without a single email or spreadsheet in between.
Snap a receipt or record an expense from your phone — no forms, no posting paperwork, no waiting weeks to be paid back.
Approve carer expenses in a couple of taps, and get an AI summary of where money went across each placement — no trawling through receipts.
See every social worker, how many carers each holds, and where caseloads are over- or under-utilised — so you can balance load and plan with confidence.
Adjust the figures below to your service. The estimates use published UK sector benchmarks for AI-assisted case recording — your own results would be measured during a pilot.
A foster carer snaps a receipt or records an expense from the Fosterwith app in seconds.
Fosterwith matches it to the placement and budget line, and checks it against your policy rules.
Routine, in-policy items clear automatically. Anything unusual is flagged for a quick human check.
Spend updates against budget in real time, with a full audit trail ready for inspection.
Independent fostering agencies face the same admin load and the same need to evidence value to commissioning authorities. Fosterwith gives IFAs carer expense management, placement oversight and AI-assisted recording in one platform — and makes reporting back to the councils you work with effortless.
Fosterwith works alongside the case-management systems councils and agencies already use — surfacing operational insight from data that's often locked away, rather than asking you to rip and replace.
See how Fosterwith could cut the admin load on your teams and give you real visibility of placement spend. Or jump straight into the live demo — no sign-up needed.