Fostering Relations Information

Fostering Relations offers high quality family placements to help children and young people who are looked after by local authorities Our agency is designed to meet a wide range of needs, including those of children and young people with complex and complicated histories who may make considerable demands upon their carers. Our aim is to provide best service through support, training and remuneration to carers and to value the enormous contribution they make to the lives of children who cannot live with their own family. Our goal is to provide the best value service to local authorities placing children with us by working alongside them to achieve care plans for children and young people and by ensuring safe and supported placements until plans have been achieved. We will work in a culture of continuous improvement of our services to children, carers and placing authorities and will regularly evaluate our service by seeking their views. We will meet and strive to exceed national standards. History Fostering Relations was the dreamchild of a social worker with almost 30 years experience in the world of fostering and adoption. Having worked in the local authority for some 18 years she moved to the independent sector, setting up and developing the first dedicated independent fostering agency in Scotland. Having introduced a second independent agency, she decided to set up Fostering Relations which would be wholly owned and delivered in Scotland. Her vision was to retain a personal, qualitative service with a deliberate policy of measured growth that would ensure consolidation of the highest standards. In short, Fostering Relations was to operate as a service that had no desire to emulate the large, corporate fostering agencies emerging within Scotland. Underpinning this was that the plan should always be to provide children with the kind of family experience we would wish for our own child.