What we provide

Alongside comprehensive training, we not only provide 24/7 support, access to support groups in your local area but also a generous transport allowance, accommodation allowance, respite which allows you to have a break, education support and health support with dedicated personnel. We operate convenient online reporting. We undertake detailed and careful matching of the child with your family – you will always have the final say.

Most importantly, we link our carers with children in the following ways

Short Term Placements

These placements are required for short periods of time. This can mean only weeks or it can become a year or more! Often the Care Plan for the child or young person is uncertain and is still subject to assessment and further decisions. The local authority will need to make decisions about whether the child can be returned to the care of their birth family or whether a long term alternative home (placement) is needed. Foster carers work closely with the local authority social worker as you will often have a special insight into the needs of the child or young person that has lived with you.

Long Term Placements

These placements offer children and young people who are unable to return to their birth families, a secure and stable home throughout their childhood and into adulthood. This often means caring for a young person until the age of 18 years and helping prepare and develop their skills for independent living.

Sibling Groups

It is usually desirable for brothers and sisters to be able to stay together when they cannot remain in their birth family. We are asked to provide homes for sibling groups and so families who can provide care for more than one child, from the same family, are always needed.

Respite Care/Short Breaks

Applications are welcome from carers who may not have the ability or time, at this point in their lives, to provide full time care but may still be interested in helping other carers by providing them with a ‘break’. Carers are sometimes also able to offer care for children for ‘short breaks’. This extra support often enables the child or young person to remain within their birth family for much of the time.