Fostering Services

Fostering People offers a wide range of placements for children and young people of all ages with foster carers. All placements are 'matched' to ensure a good fit between the needs of children and young people and the skills and experience of foster carers to meet those needs. 

Many Fostering People foster carers have extensive experience and/or training in specialised areas of care e.g. caring for those who have been sexually abused; dealing with challening behaviour. Needs and placement solutions are carefully and continuously monitored and supported.

All placements must be negotiated through the child or young person's care authority (the Local Authority) either through individual placement contract or as part of a wider contract of service provision commissioned by the Local Authority.

Fostering People offer the following range of placements

• Long term placements
• Bridging placements
• Short term placements
• Emergency placements
• Parent and child placements
• Respite placements
• Appropriate placements for Sanctuary Seeking Children & Young People 
• Short break provision for disabled children

Placement Regulation

All placements of children and young people with Fostering People foster carers are made and monitored in accordance with the Fostering Services Regulations (England 2002; Wales 200)

This means that:

All foster carers are properly approved, reviewed and have signed a 'Foster Care Agreement'
All children's placements are made using individual 'Foster Placement Agreements' which are prepared either before or at the point of placement and which include essential information sharing and care plans
Wherever possible, pre-placement planning is undertaken, including introductions between foster carers and child(ren). For emergency placements immediate care and placement planning is given rapid attention.