OFSTED Quotes

Comments on our high standards of care, service and support

The Agency has a positive impact on the lives of children and young people. This is evidenced by the strong, and in some cases, excellent, progress that children make across many areas of their lives.

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Emotional Well-being

"The ways in which the Agency promotes the emotional well-being of children is an area of excellence."

Therapeutic Fostering

"Staff follow best practice in therapeutic fostering to support foster carers to relate to children with empathy, patience, acceptance, and deep understanding of their life stories."

Recognising Feelings

"Foster carers are skilled in helping children to recognise their feelings and to develop emotional literacy and better self-regulation."

Putting Children First

"The strong focus on putting children first is evident in all areas of the Service."

Strong Relationships

"The Agency has strong working relationships with other professionals within the team-around-the-child network."

Excellent oversight

"The managers have excellent oversight of all areas of the Service."

Strong Professional Connections

"Foster carers said that they feel valued and supported. They talked highly about the Agency and their relationships with their supervising social workers. The consistency of the leaders, managers and staff, has resulted in strong professional connections."

Understanding Feelings

"The Agency has strong working relationships with other Foster carers understand how children’s past traumatic experiences might affect their behaviour, feelings, and attitudes."

Excellent Training Offer

"Staff and foster carers’ annual appraisals and personal development plans link with the Agency’s excellent training offer."

Children Make Excellent Progress

"In particular, children make excellent progress in developing their communication skills, self-esteem and ability to relate to others."

Positive Impact

"The Agency has a positive impact on the lives of the children and young people. This is evidenced by the strong, and in some cases, excellent, progress that children make across many areas of their lives."

Best Agency To Work With

"External professionals talked highly about the Agency. The great majority of them said that this was the best fostering Agency that they worked with."

Our shared passion and vision of providing high quality practical, emotional and therapeutic support to foster carers and the children in their care, inspired and motivated us to set up Family Fostering.