About NEWFOCAS

About

Developed in conjunction with many highly skilled and experienced professionals and carers, we offer excellence in service at all times. All our team members and carers are NVQ qualified. And our ethos is based on mutual support and shared ownership of the care, welfare, and well-being of all children, young people, and parents placed with NEWFOCAS.

Supporting family values for happier lives...

We are unique. Our dedicated team is an 'extended family' which assists carers in realistically meeting the needs of very demanding children. We also provide a Therapeutic Community (specialist therapeutic placements) where children and young people can explore their emotions safe in the knowledge that, whilst doing so, they will remain part of the NEWFOCAS 'family'.

A new FOCAS on exceptional care...

Not only do we provide our foster carers with an exemplary level of 'around the clock' support, assistance, and specialist advice, but we believe the matching process of placement to carer is of fundamental importance. And through stringent processes we ensure our foster carers only look after children perfectly suited to their skills and area/s of expertise.

Our placements come to us for many different reasons. And a child may be fostered for any length of time from a few months to 18+ years. We also provide short- to medium-term family accommodation assessments to expectant or new mums and dads whose baby or child is deemed to be at risk.

NEWFOCAS aims and objectives for exceptional care...

• Provide preventive, assessment, and short-term family placement accommodation to children and young people of any age who would otherwise be unlikely to experience family life whilst in the care or criminal justice system.
• Provide pre- and post-birth short-term assessment and short- to middle-term training and support placements to young mothers.
• Provide our carers with an exemplary level of support and training.
• Provide careful placement matching and individual risk assessment to ensure safety of both placement and carer.
• Create a highly individual plan for each placement, including health and educational needs, which is regularly reviewed and updated.
• Provide alternative education packages for excluded children.
• Immerse children and young people in family environments and encourage sociability.
• Ensure placements are equipped with the necessary skills for an independent future.
• Where possible, work closely with birth family members to ensure a positive contact experience.

View the NEWFOCAS Mission Statement of Purpose (4.5MB).

Please feel free to explore our website and read all about our valuable work. Or alternatively, call us on 01244 550 300 or contact us for further information.