What you can expect from the
Fostering Service
Aims 
The fostering service provides a range of
placements for children and young people who need to be looked
after in the Vale. We aim to offer care that keeps them
safe from abuse and neglect and encourages their emotional, health
and educational development.
Objectives
- To provide a stable home environment for children and young
people who are placed with Vale carers to allow them the
opportunity to reach their full potential
- To provide a service that is committed to keeping the needs of
the Looked After Child/Young Person as central to its purpose
- To work within a clear and accountable framework for matching
children and young people’s needs to the skills of foster carers
which takes account of potential risks
- To promote the racial, cultural and religious identity of
children and young people and give consideration to the gender,
sexuality, disability of fostered children and young people when
identifying a placement
- A commitment to improving placement choice by the recruitment
of foster carers from diverse backgrounds that reflects the
community of the Vale
- The operation of a competency-based foster care system of
assessing, reviewing and supervising carers
- The operation of a payment for skills scheme that allows for
career progression for carers who wish to become full time, fee
paid foster carers
- To provide qualified social work staff to supervise foster
carers
- To operate a referral process, working in partnership with
childcare social work teams, which reflects the needs of children
and young people as identified by the National Assessment
Framework.
- To work in partnership with childcare teams and reviewing
officers to support the implementation of individual children and
young people’s care plan
- Please see our Statement of
Purpose