The Fostering Support Team
Deals with referrals for placements; advising, support,
monitoring and reviewing foster carers and dealing with complaints,
representations and allegations against foster carers.
The Fostering Development Team
Recruits, trains and assesses prospective foster carers and
provides post approval training. It also deals with private
fostering publicity and notifications and assessments of private
fostering arrangements.
The Adoption and Permanence Team
Recruits, trains and assesses prospecitve adopters and long term
foster carers and provides post approval raining and support to
adopters. It works closely with children's social workers to
find substitute families for children whom the court decides should
not live with the birth parents. It also deals with
inter-country adoption, letterbox contact and provides other post
approval adoption services.