Fostering in Wiltshire

Five Rivers Family Placement Service

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Our Fostering office in Wiltshire remains the primary site of the Family Placement Fostering Service and was initially developed as a result of providing Family Placements for Children and Young People leaving the Five Rivers Residential Homes. Since 1994 the service has continued to develop and the office is presently working towards new developments across the southern region. Our team in Salisbury located next door to our Head office in Bedwin Street (although School Lane is in the same road!)

Our office in Salisbury covers a wide area including Southampton, Salisbury, Bournemouth. The South Coast team work closley with our local residential provisions enabling us to provide a intergrated approach to find families from Residential for specfic Children and Young People who are exiting their placement programme. Our School the Farringdon Centre is also located in close proximity to enable Children and Young People to attend school during their GCSC's as part of an intergrated Residential / Foster Placement.

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Five Rivers

Five Rivers Child Care Ltd

01722 421142

School Lane Salisbury Wiltshire SP13YA

Family Placements

Fostering Services have undergone many changes in the last twenty years.

Children and young people previously thought unfosterable are now placed, are doing well and flourishing within foster care.

The search still goes on for placements for ever more difficult children and young people to give them an opportunity for a positive family experience.

In order to ensure the development of a successful Fostering Service, our aim is to provide a professional childcare service from within a family base.

Our foster carers are regarded as professionals in their integrity, level of skills, commitment and their philosophy of providing ‘alternative family’ care for children and young people. Five Rivers operates on the principle that foster carers are our colleagues and fellow professionals working in the field of child care, and as such remunerate them accordingly, and our high expectations of foster carers are accordingly the same as for all professionals involved in childcare.

Five Rivers also shares all the information that it has with foster carers with whom we work, so that they can be professional and informed in their decision-making.

Five Rivers is committed to involve other agencies, young people and their families in a consultation manner that allows service delivery and the ongoing development of Five Rivers to occur.

The service has also developed strategies and systems that are linked to providing successful outcomes for young people based on the every child matters framework.