Foster Our Ethos - Work with Five Rivers

Our aim is to provide an accepting and emotionally warm family environment for children to live in, whilst at the same time offering clearly defined programmes of care. Where necessary and agreed, specific therapeutic work will be undertaken with individual children. Usually such work will be time limited, have clearly identified goals and be contractual in nature. These services are negotiated between responsible authorities and Five Rivers.

Children whose lives have been disrupted, who have been mistreated or who have not had the opportunities to grow and develop as most children do, require time and security to develop a sense of identity and self worth in order to grow and develop with confidence.

To provide safe and structured family environments and be able to love and care for damaged and abused children / young people and those children who have had multiple placements. To provide a positive caring value-base, recognising the importance of educational achievement for individual children / young people.

To provide a bridge between past and present, present and future, and for all children / young people referred to the fostering scheme.

To provide children / young people with a lifelong resource and a nurturing base, to support their independence, and move on.

Committed to helping children / young people remain with their siblings, so as to provide them with continuity within their family relationships.

To provide children / young people placed with Five Rivers with a commitment to ongoing family links.

It is our belief that the very challenging children / young people we work with, we must provide a flexible yet a consistent support service to our foster carers and their own families as a group or individually.

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