About Us
What we do
Paramount Foster Care provides supportive and child-focused services that ensure longevity of positive, safe relationships and meaningful care. We are a team of experienced professionals who are passionate about improving the life-chances of children and young people that come into care or are already in care. We are committed to working with foster carers' to provide them with the support they need to ensure that children and young people have every opportunity to thrive in a loving and caring environment.
Our aims & objectives
Aim:
To positively transform the lives of children and young people placed with Paramount Foster Care by providing safe, stable, and nurturing family-based care that supports healing, development, and long-term positive outcomes.
Our objectives are to:
- Provide stable, high-quality fostering placements for children in care
- Recruit, train, and retain foster carers from diverse backgrounds to meet a wide range of needs
- Support, supervise, and train foster carers to meet the individual needs of each child or young person
- Carefully match children and young people with suitably skilled and experienced foster carers
- Actively seek and respect the wishes and feelings of children and young people, promoting participation in their care planning
- Maximise outcomes across education, health, emotional wellbeing, and social development
- Promote sibling placements and meaningful family time where appropriate
- Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, recognising each child’s cultural, linguistic, religious, gender, sexual identity, and disability-related needs
- Consult with children, young people, and foster carers to inform service development
- Maintain a culture of continuous improvement informed by reflection, feedback, and research
- Celebrate and recognise the achievements of children, foster carers, and staff
Why choose Paramount Foster Care?
Innovation is what drives us. Our team are determined to strengthen the foster community by empowering carers to take on any challenge with confidence. In doing so we aim to bring stability and happiness to the lives of all children and young people in care.
In order to equip carers with the ability to achieve positive changes in fostering, our focus is devoted to the following three factors:
Support:
We are proud of the support we give to carers and their families. To ensure that everyone in our network can provide safe care, we offer guidance throughout the application process from the moment you enquire.
Paramount Foster Care have access to psychologists, therapists and counselling services. Our peer-to-peer network can also link carers to other families within our agency.
Development:
Training is of importance to Paramount Foster Care. We train foster carers prior to approval; ensuring they feel qualified to care for any child/young person placed with them.
In addition our training offer covers attachment theory, positive relationships with children / young people and other critical areas of development.
Sustainability:
We value our foster carers and aim to make their careers future-proof. Our team are on-hand to offer 24/7 advice and guidance, while supported breaks ensure carers have the flexibility to make fostering a sustainable profession.
Other reasons:
- Paid respite, so you can take a break
- Regular family events, meet-ups and a warm welcome into a network of other local foster carers
- Training offer that goes beyond the mandatory courses
- The opportunity to become a fostering mentor
- A dedicated Supervising Social Worker who provides regular supervision to foster carers
- We are a small local agency, having the capacity and time to put foster carers at the heart of the child/young person needs
- Our Supervising Social Worker have manageable caseloads and have the time to build great working relationships with their foster carers
