Paramount Foster Care aims to transform the lives of vulnerable children and young people placed in our care.  

As a child/young person centered agency and working holistically, we aim to provide high levels of permanency, very few disruptions, coupled with excellent support surrounding the child/young person’s education and emotional progress. The agency will always put the needs of children and young people at the heart of everything it does. 

Our service STRIVE's to-  

Safeguard - Safeguarding will be paramount to our operations and we will never compromise on quality and safety for children and young people. We will ensure children/young people are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted. We will work tirelessly to provide children and young people in our care with a stable, secure and loving home.  

Train- We ensure all staff including foster carers complete mandatory induction training and be committed to pursuing their on-going learning and professional development. All foster carers will have a training support and development (TSD) plan in place and have access to support and guidance from their supervising social worker.   

Recruit – We recruit and retain competent foster carers from diverse backgrounds, in order to provide local authorities with appropriate choices and matches to children and young people referred to us. Our foster carers will include those who are trained and skilled in offering placements to accommodate children, teenagers, asylum seekers and parent and child placements.

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Independence – We will promote the independence of all children and young people that come into our care. We endeavor to ensure children and young people develop their skills and emotional resilience to able to make positive life choices, maintain good health, make friends, have relationships (where possible) and integrate positively into the community. By adopting a holistic approach, we enable young people leaving care to achieve either or all, of the following: independent living, paid employment, further study.

 Views- The child’s or young person’s welfare is paramount in all our decisions. We will regularly ascertain the wishes and feelings of a child or young person in order to promote participation and ensure they have a say in their care plan. Feedback from the child/young person will also enable the agency to improve it’s service provision. 

Educate – We will work in partnership with multi agency professionals in order to support and promote the educational progress and achievement of children and young people in our 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 all carers prior to approval; ensuring they feel qualified to care for any child/young person placed with them.

Our extensive training covers attachment theory, positive relationships with children / young people and other critical areas of development.

Sustainability:

We value our 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 that goes beyond the mandatory course, including specialist trauma awareness training
• The opportunity to become a fostering mentor
• A dedicated Social Worker who provides regular supervision
• We are a small local agency and have the capacity and time to put foster carers at the heart of the child/young person 
• Our Supervising Social Workers’ have manageable caseloads and have the time to build great working relationships with their foster carers