Fostering support
Why choose us? First our highly experienced Supervising Social Workers will make sure that you are placed with the right child or young person. Any placement will always be discussed and agreed beforehand. Here is the full list of the benefits and supports we will offer you:
An allocated Supervising Social Worker: you will be allocated one of our highly experienced Supervising Social Workers who will support you all along your placement. Your social worker will call you and visit you regularly to make sure everything is ok.
24 hour, 7 days a week support: there will always be someone available to help you if there’s a problem at any time of the day or night.
Training and development: you’ll receive training during your assessment and then, following approval, you can take advantage of TACT courses covering a wide range of topics from Child Development to Managing Challenging Behaviour, Disability Awareness to Valuing Diversity. After a year, you can even study for an NVQ related to foster care.
Allowances: our foster carers receive generous allowances and fees. Details of our current rates of pay is provided within our initial enquiries packs.
Carer's support groups: each area holds regular carer's support groups where carers can meet other carers in their area and share experiences.
Children & young people groups: we also run groups for the children and young people including the children of our carers.
As well as supporting our carers, we also provide additional services for the children and young people in their care and their foster families. An integral part of our fostering services is making the fostering experience positive for the children in care and for foster families. To help with this, we:
employ a number of Children’s Resource Workers who work individually with children in placement.
run training and support groups for children who are fostered and also for the birth children of foster families.
offer a supervised contact service for families separated from their children.
have access to trainers and therapists who can work with individual foster carers and children.
offer a therapeutic play service for families and children (only in one office).
prepare young people for their life after care through our “Skills 4 Life” training.
communicate regularly to our foster carers and their families via our monthly newsletter.
organise local activity events for children and young people but also annual events such as our Big Week-end, awards ceremonies recognising the work of our foster carers and their families but also the achievement of young people in TACT care.
encourage young people’s participation in- and views on- the running of our services through our “Children’s Champions” group meetings.
If you have a spare bedroom, childcare experience, understanding, patience and a sense of humour and want to change a young person’s life, read on to find out more about TACT fostering services across the UK. If you are interested in fostering, contact one of our local offices and talk to one of our staff who will be more than happy to answer any of your questions. Alternatively, download our brochure Transform a life. Become a foster carer (PDF, 8 pages, 786KB).
