Regional Manager for the West Midlands – we are pleased to announce that Jessamy Albrechtsen has now joined our regional management team bringing with her 22 years of experience in asocial care setting.
Jess worked with both individuals and groups involving crisis intervention with families to prevent relationship breakdown and children coming into care, working with young people at risk of sexual exploitation and later the assessment of risk and delivery of treatment programmes in relation to young people displaying sexually inappropriate behaviour.
More recently Jess was responsible for the overall day to day management of a family placement team covering mainstream fostering, private fostering, kinship care and shared care. This post involved supervising a large team of Social Workers and support staff and her responsibilities included the implementation of regulatory standards and agreed local policies and procedures, chairing of team meetings and team development meetings, including strategic development and was panel advisor responsible for quality assurance of assessments
OPEN DAYS IN KINGS LYNN 21st to 23rd SEPTEMBER AT THE VANCOUVER CENTRE
Regional Foster Placements are again in the Vancouver Centre in Kings Lynn to offer persaonal advice to prospective foster carers.
Our stand is attended by senior staff who are available to answer many of your own personal questions and to advise you on how best to start a professional fostering career.
There is also a range of literature for you to take away to read at your leisure to assist you further in becoming a foster carer.
On our website www.regionalfosterplacements.co.uk there is a section “About Fostering” where you will find detailed information regarding fostering, the qualities required of a foster carer, the assessment process, support and training.
There is also a booklet available to download called “Becoming a Foster Carer” which will appear once you have made an enquiry.
You can listen to testimonials from some of our foster carers on the video “Watch Our Video” on this web page, alternatively you can call us today on 08000 19 11 65 for a more personal chat with one of our seniour team members.
BBC Radio Devon have contacted Regional Foster Placement’s Managing Director, to join them “On Air” today to provide information to their listeners about Fostering and how it differs from Adoption.
Questions ranged from keeping children and young people safe, support, training and fostering financial allowances.
At the end of the interview the Managing Director provided the listening audience with the most common method of finding more information about fostering, by using information contained on fostering websites.
We understand from BBC Radio Devon that there will be more opportunities to discuss fostering “On Air” in the future.
In the “About Fostering” section of this website you will find detailed information regarding fostering, the qualities required of a foster carer, the assessment process, support and training.
There is also a booklet available to download called “Becoming a Foster Carer” which will appear once you have made an enquiry.
You can listen to testimonials from some of our foster carers on the video “Watch Our Video” on this web page, alternatively you can call us today on 08000 19 11 65 for a more personal chat with one of our seniour team members.
We are pleased to announce that Shaun Burland has recently joined the team here at Regional Foster Placements, as Regional Manager – East Anglia. Shaun has worked within Norfolk county council children’s services for 25 years as a social worker, manager and senior manager. He has extensive knowledge of all matters relating to fostering for children and young people. Shaun’s in depth understanding of the needs of children and young people and experience as a senior manager within a large County Council made him an obvious choice to develop Regional Foster Placements high quality fostering service across East Anglia. “I chose Regional Foster Placements for their commitment to providing the best possible support to carers and for their child centred approach” said Shaun
Shaun is now recruiting foster carers across Norfolk and Suffolk you can contact him by phone on 01603-821070 or email shaun@regionalfosterplacements.co.uk
We will be available for a chat at the Britten Shopping Centre on the 23rd and 24th August. If you would like to know more about fostering our experienced team will be available for a chat and to answer many of your questions regarding fostering.
There is also a wealth of information on this website under the heading of FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) or in the About Fostering section.
You can also call 08000 19 11 65 from 9-00am to 7-00pm to chat directly with a member of our team who will be happy to provide an insight into fostering and make their answers to your questions relevant to your own personal circumstances.
For a second year Regional Foster Placements are holding their fantastic Bushcraft Event, where young people over the age of 12 will have a unique opportunity to camp in the woods for 4 nights in their own bivouac that they have built using natural materials.
A clay oven will be built so that bread and pizza’s can be cooked and eaten while musicians have been organised to provide music at the evening camp fires.
The Bushcraft campsite is in woodland in Devon, where company staff and foster carers will assist qualified bushcraft trainers. Many activities will be taking place including:
- Wood scavenging
- Demonstration and practical sessions;
- knives, saws, axes.
- Games
- Team building tasks
- Camouflage & Concealment
- Laser Quest games
- Wait for it…………….cooking and washing up!
We will be highlighting activities in our next Newsletter.
We will be hosting more open days in the following area in August
Kings Lynn
Lowestoft
Great Yarmouth
Dates and venues will be available in the next few days
We are pleased to announce we now have a brand new website
The site will enable us to add more in the way of information, videos, maps and have a modern look and feel to it where navigation will be easier.
For those not in the computer age yet I am sure there will be a greater emphasis on using the computer for daily logs and keeping up-to-date with new policies especially with the new Minimum Standards.
We are committed to the development of our carers, recognising the professional role which they have within the childcare service. We also recognise that our foster carers have varied areas of interest and expertise, thus it is our intention to enable our carers to develop further their skills through a variety of learning experiences.
It is recognised that each person has a preferred style to learning, thus Regional Foster Placements provides a variety of approaches when considering how to present training. These include: workshops, conferences, 1-1 sessions, online courses and guest speakers / informal discussions at support groups. All our carers have a Professional Development Portfolio and training needs are discussed and agreed through formal supervision.
You can find out more information on our training here or you can contact us here.
Now this was really something different with the company going right out on a limb.
At Hatherliegh Community Centre dark clouds were gathering high in the midday sky and words of “oh no it’s going to rain” and “it looks like the BBC weather forecast is actually right for once” were forming on my mind. Other thoughts included “this is not good” and “please don’t let me be wet for three days!”
When the convoy arrived at the forest called “475,093” Ancient forest gods were looking down on the mighty Outdoor Adventurers. One of the forest gods granted the wish of dry weather for three days to ease their quest (quiet prayer of thanks was given.)
