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Options for children who need care

 
If our support services don't seem to be working, or you feel your child needs to live away from home for a while, or our social services teams have assessed the situation and concluded the same, there are a range of scenarios to look at.

Remember, we believe that children and their parents should be together. Taking a child into care is the last resort. We will evaluate every other option first. If these options don't work, the following possibilities will be explored:

Family and friends fostering

When a child is referred to our Children's Services team because the child's parents cannot care for them, one option is to make a formal fostering arrangement with friends or family.

Fostering

Fostering means that a child goes to live with an approved carer while problems are resolved in the child's family.

The child might need to be in foster care for a matter of days, a few months or perhaps even longer. It depends on each child's situation.

It is ONLY if none of these work out that options like residence in a children's home, or adoption, are considered.

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Contact information

  • 020 8921 3172