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Host Family service praised in unannounced inspection report
An unannounced inspection finds early successes for our youngest service, Host Families.
October 9, 2024
We are a community of foster carers, children and young people, staff and volunteers in Scotland. Our community cares for young people in family settings when they cannot live with their own families. We provide safe and nurturing homes to help them thrive and reach their potential.
Our charity has been supporting children and young people in Scotland for over 200 years. Originally an orphanage, today we provide family-based care offered by carers skilled in therapeutic parenting.
Foster care is highly rewarding. There are challenges, but with help and support, you can positively change the life of a young person. Many more foster carers are needed across Scotland.
Foster carers are self-employed and receive a weekly fee and a young person’s allowance.
We have been answering questions about fostering for a very long time:
An unannounced inspection finds early successes for our youngest service, Host Families.
How to support foster carers at work while benefiting from their additional skills and expertise will be the topic of the next DACC123 event. We are hosting the business networking lunch event at our Head Office.
During Foster Care Fortnight we celebrated our carers. We treated them to a special lunch, identified achievements and gathered some of their special fostering moments.
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