Service to Local Authorities

We offer short or long-term placements, on a planned or emergency basis, to all ages of children and young people.

Our foster carers have a range of experience and we can consider, depending on availability, referrals that include the following:

• learning disability
• medical conditions
• challenging behaviour
• where children have experienced abuse of any type
• sibling groups

We prefer that children have their own rooms, especially for the older child, but would use shared bedroom space by agreement with the placing social worker.

Placement availability for children/young people who present a risk of abuse or violence will be limited to those placements where there is minimal access to other children.

Therapeutic input can be provided where necessary by arrangement.

The 'named' carer is asked to be available on a full-time basis, i.e. to be fully available for the child if she/he is sick, home from school, on a school holiday; and available for all meetings and appointments related to the child in placement.  This means that for a carer to seek secondary employment is not seen to be appropriate.  All our carers are encouraged to make daily recordings.  Typed copies of these are sent to the child's social worker.

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