About Us - Our Priorities
The Fostering Service's main goals are to deliver:
- Safe, high quality foster care
- Continuous recruitment and retention of foster carers
- A commitment to a child-centred approach and to improving Looked After children's life chances across the five outcomes of the government initiative. Visit Every Child Matters website
- Close working with all sections of the Children and Young People's Service to ensure that the best interests of the children are paramount at all times
- Partnership working with all departments of the Local Authority
- Partnership working with other agencies, including health-related, to ensure that comprehensive support packages can be devised and implemented
- Comprehensive advice, encouragement and support of all foster carers
- A full contribution to the development and continuous improvement in the delivery of child care services within the Authority
- A commitment to the ongoing development of foster carers through training and personal development programmes.
Statement of Intent for all Foster Care Enquiries & Foster Care Applicants
The aim of Rotherham's Fostering Service is to provide children looked after in foster care with foster placements which reflect the children's race, culture, religious & language needs.
In order to meet the services' needs for sufficient good quality foster placements, we aim to ensure:-
- 1. Foster Care enquirers are given a positive & welcoming response
- 2. All foster care applicants are offered a service which is based on the principles of equal opportunities & respect for individuals, regardless of language, race, culture, religion, sexuality or disability
- 3. All enquirers are offered information about the process of fostering assessment which is outlined in the Children Act 1989
- 4. All enquirers receive a confidential service
- 5. To inform foster care applicants in an honest & sympathetic manner if the assessing social worker has concerns about the applicants' suitability to become foster carers
