Children and Young Peoples Support Worker Service (CYPSS)

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

CYPSS support workers are part of the multi-disciplinary team that supports and sustains placements by identifying and meeting the needs of individual children and young people and their foster carers.

Through partnership with others, support workers provide focused practical inputs to help sustain childrens' placement stability and deliver positive outcomes.

FCA CYPSS Services

The range of services offered by CYPSS workers includes

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

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

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