Children & Young Peoples Support Service

FCA’s Children and Young People’s Support Service (CYPSS) is integral to providing a range of effective needs-led services for children/young people and foster carers.

The support workers are part of the multi-disciplinary team that supports and sustains placements by identifying and meeting the needs of individual children/young people and their foster carers. Through partnership with others, support workers provide focused practical inputs to help sustain children’s placement stability and deliver positive outcomes.

The range of services offered includes:

• Day support to maintain a placement – this could be an educational programme or structured activities because a child/young person is not attending school, support provided within a classroom setting, support to meet an unforeseen emergency in a foster home 
• Transport for a child/young person to attend school, contact visits, FCA activities or holidays, or where appropriate, transport for foster carers 
• Supervision of contact between a child/young person and his/her birth family 
• FCA holidays and social activities for foster children/young people 
• FCA social activities for the sons and daughters of foster carer 
• Out of hours duty support in response to crises or other emergencies

Our CYPSS service is designed to be flexible and responsive and the above examples are not exhaustive.