Fostering, adopting and looked after children
The Children and Families Resource Team is responsible for the recruitment, assessment, training and support of carers for children and young people.
Our services include foster care, adoption and permanence, respite care for children with disabilities and outreach support. We also provide assessment and support services for kinship care arrangements and reports for the courts in relation to legally securing family care.
We are committed to supporting carer families in ensuring that National Care Standards are met by upholding principles of dignity, privacy, choice, safety, diversity and equality to maximise the potential of each child and young person.
We are committed to working with partner agencies to provide continuously improving services which are responsive to service user's changing needs.
Are you interested in fostering? Do you want to find out more?
The Children and Families Resources Team has its own website - see the link at the right of this page - or CLICK HERE to listen to a group of foster carers share their experiences and talk about the difference that being a foster carer makes.
Thinking of becoming a foster carer? Myths Busted!
Want more information and insight into what it involves? Not sure you'd make a difference or that you're the right kind of person? Read our 'myth busting' case studies below:
Myth 1: 'Fostering doesn't really make a difference in a child's life' - what children say
Myth 2: 'Fostering doesn't really make a difference in a child's life' - what foster carers say
Myth 3: 'Fostering means taking children away from their parents'
Myth 4: 'Only people who're married and have children can foster'
Myth 5: 'Fostering is a short term thing'
Myth 6: 'Fostering means parents might resent me'
Myth 7: 'Fostering requires a difficult assessment process'
Myth 8: 'Fostering means my own children will suffer'
Myth 9: 'There's not much help and support out there for me if I foster'
Myth 10: No myth, just last words of advice...
Contact details:
The contact for both Adoption and Fostering issues is the Children & Families Resource Team:
Children & Families Resource Team
Lomond House
Beveridge Square
Livingston
EH54 6QF
Our telephone, email and website details can be found in the Related Links section to the right of this page.
updated: 09/09/11
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