Our Service Provision: we provide foster family placements to support children from different family circumstances and backgrounds.
We offer different Placement Levels and a range of Placement Types to meet the differing needs of individual children and young people referred to us for a potential match with a foster family.
As the experience of all children coming into foster care involves trauma of some kind, our approach to supporting foster placements is increasingly being underpinned by therapeutic principles at all levels.
Our service provision allows for different levels of placements to ensure that children and young people are appropriately placed with the right level of agency input and support to meet their needs. The service provision is based on a full exchange and careful consideration of information during the matching process.
Definition: Standard Fostering Placements are offered to Children and Young People who
have not been assessed as having significant complex and specialist needs and who are not
in need of consistent and/or intensive intervention for longer periods of time, and who remain
within or close to their local boundary.
Definition: Specialist Fostering Placements are offered to Children and Young People who
have complex needs, either existing or historical. This includes the provision for Children and Young People:
Apart from the mainstream fostering service, we also provide the following complimentary services;
We provide a supervised family contact in our own warm, friendly and yet professional facility for birth families to meet with their children.
Our Conference & Family Contact Suite situated in a convenient and easily accessible location with ample parking offers conference and family contact facilities at affordable rates.