Fostering Services
Fostering People provides a range of fostering services to Local Authorities.
We provide placements for children and young people of all ages with our high quality 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, for example caring for those who have been sexually abused or dealing with challenging behaviour. Needs and placement solutions are carefully and continuously monitored and supported.
All fostering placements must be negotiated through the child or young person's care authority (the Local Authority) either through an 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
Provision for disabled children
Delivering successful outcomes for children and young people
In order to achieve the very best outcomes for looked after children and young people in our care, Fostering People provide the following:
- Regular Social Worker contact and input
- Provision of Looked After Review reports
- Support for contact, participation and social activities
- Identification of appropriate education provision, ongoing support and educational outcomes monitoring
- Individual safer caring policies for each child, which are regularly reviewed
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 2003)
This ensures 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.
