Foster Care Associates
Individual and Family ServicesEngland, United Kingdom201-500 Employees
Foster Care Associates (FCA) is a large independent fostering agency in the UK that partners with local authorities and trusts to provide family-based fostering placements for looked after children and young people. Founded in 1994, the organization supports more than 2,700 young people across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its Team Parenting approach brings together a multidisciplinary team to address the therapeutic needs of children and young people who have experienced trauma, contributing to outcomes such as high placement stability and educational progress. FCA maintains offices across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and provides locally based support to foster carers, including an out-of-hours service, supervising social workers, an education officer, therapists and CYPSS workers, with respite care as needed. Foster carers receive a competitive professional fostering fee. Based in Bromsgrove, England, the organization emphasizes recruitment campaigns to address the national shortfall of foster carers, which is reported as nearly 10,000 across the UK.