The demand for foster carers has risen nationally in recent years – especially in the wake of the Peter Connelly case.
Recent funding cuts have resulted in an increase to eligibility thresholds for care. As a result, children and young people are more frequently coming into foster care with increasingly complex attachment needs, abuse and neglect issues and conduct disorders. These manifest in challenging behaviours and emotional difficulties and impact on a foster carer’s ability to take care of foster children. It is now more important than ever for local authorities and independent agencies to effectively support professional foster carers.
Providing foster carers with the tools and knowledge to manage the complex needs of those in care will ensure local authorities and other agencies:
- Develop an informed, motivated and professional foster care workforce
- Support the stability of placements and reduce the number of placement breakdowns
- Improve the retention of foster carers and their skills bases
Attend this conference to:
- Clarify the meaning of delegated authority in the Foster Carers’ Charter: Where should flexibility end or become inappropriate?
- Discover how to manage high-risk behaviours in children aged 3-17: Evidence-based approaches to support both the foster child and foster carers
- Identify how to promote efficiencies in foster carer recruitment
- Gain insight into how to support foster carers who receive allegations of abuse
- Hear practical strategies to manage compassion fatigue in foster carers and the wider looked-after children workforce
- Have the first opportunity to discuss research findings on a project on unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in foster care and the wider implications this has for assessment
We are pleased to announce Foster Care UK as exhibitor of this conference
Register on or before 4th October and you could save up to £50!
