Childcare Workers Support Service
FFI's Childcare Workers Support Service (CWSS) is integral to providing a range of effective needs-led services for children and young people and foster carers.
The childcare workers are part of the multi-disciplinary team that supports and sustains placements by identifying and meeting the needs of individual children and young people and their foster carers.
Through partnership with others, childcare workers provide focused practical inputs to help sustain children's placement stability and deliver positive outcomes.
CWSS services
The range of services offered include:
- Day support to maintain a placement – this could be an educational programme or structured activities because a child or young person is not attending school, support provided within a classroom setting, support to meet an unforeseen emergency in a foster home
- Transport for a child/young person to attend school, contact visits, FFI activities or holidays, subject to negotiation with the placing LHO
- Supervision of contact between a child or young person and his/her birth family, subject to negotiation with the placing LHO
- FFI social activities for foster children or young people
- FFI social activities for the sons and daughters of foster carers
- Out of hours duty support in response to crises or other emergencies
Our Childcare Workers Support Service is designed to be flexible and responsive and the above examples are not exhaustive.
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