Education Service
FFI has a commitment to ensure all children and young people placed with FFI foster carers receive an appropriate education to help them achieve their full potential. We are committed to overcoming the barriers that many children and young people face in public care, which includes educational provisioning.
The aim of FFI's Education Service is to support all young people, regardless of their gender, race or disability.
Educational provisioning also forms part of our Team Parenting™ approach.
Education Officers
FFI operates a team of Education Officers, whose responsibility is to work in partnership to secure appropriate education provision for every child or young person of school age placed with the agency.
Education Officers liaise with a range of education professionals involved with the child or young person, as well as the foster carers and the young people themselves, to ensure that an appropriate school place is established. If a mainstream school is not appropriate, Education Officers will work alongside other professionals to arrange alternative provision.
Educational success at FFI
It is our expectation that young people at FFI will achieve positive outcomes at school.
We celebrate educational successes throughout the organisation – encouraging young people to strive for nationally recognised qualifications that can be used as a passport to employment or further education.
- Of those children and young people who have been placed with FFI for over a week, 94% have an appropriate school place established (September 2009)
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School attendance rates are high, exclusion rates are low
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