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Support Services

Support is at the heart of all FFI initiatives. It forms the basis of our model of fostering, Team Parenting™, which has been developed upon the foundations of delivering an extended network of professional support services to the foster carer and the looked after child or young person.

We offer intensive support to our foster carers, children, young people and their families through a network of locally based resources and multi-disciplinary teams of child care professionals.

Why deliver fostering support services?

The development of our range of support services is based on our belief that if appropriate packages of support are available to foster carers, then children and young people who would otherwise be unable to live within a family environment are able to do so.