Fostering Outcomes

24/02/2016

Fostering Outcomes have opened a new office in Hornchurch in the London Borough of Havering. The new office has been opened to provide an admin base and a local meeting venue for our North London Carers. In the coming months it will also be a therapy centre.

The new centre is at 135 Albany Road, Hornchurch, RM12 4AQ tel:0208 325 1122

24/02/2016

Payments during safeguarding investigation scheme.

One of the risks of working in the social care sector is of malicious or false allegations being made against care givers. At Fostering Outcomes we have full and robust Safeguarding policies, and we fully support investigations, but it is a fact that not every allegation is true.

As research and evidenced by Fostering Network, those who are falsely accused find it a difficult and harrowing experience usually made worse by the fact that carers fees are stopped when young people are removed from their care. Frequently placing carers under financial pressures.

As well as the independent support we provide carers during such investigations, we are really pleased to annouce that we have a new policy which allows for payments to continue to carers during investigations. We really hope this will provide added support to foster carers and also help retain carers who have been subject to false allegations.

09/05/2015

We've just received news that not only have we managed to maintain our Tier 1 status on the Welsh contract, BUT ......we are the top agency on Tier 1. This is brilliant news and all down to our carers and our Welsh team who all do an excellent job of supporting and looking after young people in care.

23/06/2014

Fostering Miconceptions Remain

Less than a third of UK adults think they would be likely to be accepted as foster carers were they to apply within the next two years, according to the results of a new poll published today by the Fostering Network.

The YouGov poll of 4,818 adults, published to coincide with the start of Foster Care Fortnight, found that a number of groups, including single people, those with no children, under 25s and over 55s were even less optimistic about the likelihood of being accepted to foster.

The survey also found that 73 per cent of the population felt positive about foster carers and the work that they do, while almost one quarter said they would consider fostering either now or in the future.

Commenting on the findings, chief executive of the Fostering Network Robert Tapsfield, said: “While it’s fantastic news that people feel so positively about fostering, we are worried that some may rule themselves out without knowing the facts on what it takes to be a good foster carer.

“It doesn’t matter if you are single or living as a couple, how old you are, or whether you have children, a job or own your own house. What matters is that you have the skills and experience to look after children separated from their own families, who have often been abused or neglected.

“Fostering is a challenging but rewarding job. We need more people to come forward and say yes to fostering and to making a real difference to the lives of the 63,000 fostered children across the UK.”

23/06/2014

Good news in South Wales

We have just been informed that our Tier 1 status on the 4cs contract for Wales has been maintained. But even better new is we have moved up to be within the top three providers. Once again this is official and independent recognition of the great work our foster parents and staff are undertaking. Thanks to you all.

23/06/2014

Tier 1 Status awarded across all categories on the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Preferred Provider contract

We are not sure what we’re doing, but our foster carers and social worker must be doing it well! We’ve just been informed that we have been awared tier 1 status in all categories and ages on the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire contract.

We can’t stress how important the contracts are to an agency. Being a preferred provider means we are amongst the first agencies to be called when an authority is looking for a home for a young person. Agencies not on contracts are unlikely to receive any referrals.

Contract submissions rely on the evidence of good practice undertaken by our carers and the support they receive from our social workers. Being awarded so many contracts shows the good work being undertaken and adds to the pride we feel in being part of Foster Outcomes. Thankyou.

23/06/2014

Another successful Fostering Tender, we are Tier 1 on the North London Alliance and East London Solutions

This contracts makes is three sucessful tenders in row including reconfirmation of Tier 1 in South Wales last week. The North London Alliance and East London Solutions contract makes us preferred providers for :-

Enfield, Haringey, Waltham Forest, Havering, Tower Hamlets, Islington, Camden & Hackney.

Being so sucessful on tender applications is really a great testiment to the great work our Foster Parents do and the high levels of support they receive from our Social Workers and Support Staff.

23/06/2014

Fostering Outcomes achieves Teir 1 status on the Lancashire Fostering Framework

We are really pleased to announced that we have received notification that we have been awarded Tier 1 status on the Lancashire Fostering Framework Contract. In practice this means that Fostering Outcomes will be amongst the first agencies to be approached when Lancashire are looking for a foster home for a child, only after Tier 1 providers have been approached will Tier 2 and so be contacted.

23/06/2014

Hackney Child – Jenny Molloy

Many of our carers in the South will know Jenny Molloy as one of our foster panel members. Jenny appeared on the BBC Breakfast News today to talk about her book ‘Hackney Child’ in which she shares her experiences of life in the care system, click here to see the clip. Unlike others with a similar background Jenny is very positive about her experiences in care, social workers in general and the support she received. Jenny always feared the stigma of being a care leaver and so wrote the book in the name of Hope Daniels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qzdp4

Hackney Child is available to purchase on line and here is a link to Jenny’s web site Hackney Child.

Jenny also works with The Tope Project which is an excellent Charity set up by care leavers to help challenge the loneliness and vulnerability many care leavers experience. Have a look at The Tope Project’s page for more information

Author Jenny Molloy on her chaotic childhood and the care system that saved her.

23/06/2014

Successful ‘Don’t move me on’ Campaign

You may be aware that Fostering Network have campaigned to increase the care leaving age under their campaign “Don’t Move me On”. We are extremely please to announce the success of this campaign and although we don’t know the full details we understand there will be a legal duty on Local Authorities to allow young people to stay in their Foster Placements post 18 years.

The majority of young people are not ready for independence at 18 and there is substantial evidence to show a great number of looked after children who are forced into independent living at 18, or younger, go on to fail. Quite simply we believe forcing a young person to leave care at 18 years is wrong. So Fostering Outcomes welcome this news and we hope it will enable us to continue to support our young people post eighteen and help give them the support they need either through their time in further education or on their journey to independence and stable adult life.

Unfortunately it does not apply to Wales and Scotland. See link below for details.

http://www.fostering.net/news/2013/don-t-move-me-campaign-success #.Up7nQ51FBjo