Fostering & Safeguarding

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Foster Care is the temporary custody or guardianship for children whose parents are dead or unable to look after them. The following are the different types of foster care :

Emergency – When children need somewhere safe to stay for a few nights

Short-term – Carers look after children for a few weeks or months while plans are made for the child’s future

Short breaks – When children who are disabled, have special needs or have behavioural difficulties regularly stay for a while with a family. This means their parents or usual foster carers can have a break.

Remand – When young people are remanded by a court to be looked after by a specially-trained foster carer.

Fostering for Adoption – When babies or small children stay with foster carers who may go on to adopt them

Long-term – Not all children who need to permanently live away from their birth family want to be adopted, so instead they go into long-term foster care until they are adults.

‘Family and friends’ or ‘Kinship’ – A child being cared for by the local council goes to live with someone they already know, usually a family member.

Specialist therapeutic – For children and young people with very complex needs and/or challenging behaviour.

Safeguarding – Is protecting vulnerable children from abuse or neglect. It means making sure they are supported to get good access to health care and stay well. Safeguarding should make sure that childrenget the support they need to make the most of their lives and get their full equal rights.

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Children’s Residential & Step Down Care

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Residential care refers to long-term care given to children who stay in a residential setting rather than in their own home or family home. There are various residential care options available, depending on the needs of the individual.

A step-down placement or step-down care is where ongoing care support will not be required at the same level for the foreseeable future, but where there is an end goal of independence at some level. This independence may not be living life with no support, but the goal will be to have as little support in place as possible.

Leaving Care/ Transitional Care/ Asylum Care also come under this category.

Our data also covers the following categories :

1. Children & Family Services
2. Early Years & Childcare
3. Further Education and Skills
4. Schools

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Adult Residential & Nursing

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Adult social care is the support provided to adults with physical or learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses. This could be for personal care (such as eating, washing, or getting dressed) or for domestic routines (such as cleaning or going to the shops).

This support is provided in various ways. It can be provided through formal care services, including residential care homes or a carer helping in the home. These services have to be paid for, usually by the local council or through private funds. Family members, neighbours, or friends may also provide unpaid care, which is often referred to as informal care.

Residential care refers to long-term care given to adults who stay in a residential setting rather than in their own home or family home. There are various residential care options available, depending on the needs of the individual.

Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.

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Elderly Residential & Nursing

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Residential care refers to long-term care given to the elderly who stay in a residential setting rather than in their own home or family home. There are various residential care options available, depending on the needs of the individual.

Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.

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Domiciliary & Supported Living

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Most people live independently in their own homes. However if you are frail or have long term care needs, this can be difficult without the help and support of other people and services. Help with personal care and other practical household tasks is called Domiciliary Care. Domiciliary Care is often referred to as Personal Care or Homecare (Personal Care in your own home).

Care in the Community (also called “Community Care” or “Domiciled Care”) is the treating and caring for physically and mentally disabled people in their homes rather than in an institution.

Supported living means that you are supported to live in the way you want:

Your housing and support is built around you rather than you fitting in to a service.

• You choose who you live with (if anyone)
• You choose where you live
• You choose who supports you and how you are supported

In supported living, people are supported to take control of their life. Supported living is not just for people who are more independent. Anyone can have support to live in their own home.

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