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Rated by Ofsted in 2011 as “outstanding” at helping children to achieve

The Five Rivers Fostering Service based in Exeter was established in 2001 and offers:

A wide range of long term and short term foster placements for individuals and sibling groups
Foster Carers trained in Attachment Theory
Experienced assessment placements for parents with children
Trained contact supervisors
A flexible attitude

We are looking for people with or without experience who are able to grow and develop through high quality training and support to offer the best possible care to children and young people of all ages.

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Five Rivers Fostering

Five Rivers Child Care Ltd

01392 454989

Aldens Business Court Chudleigh Road Exeter EX2 8TS

Foster Care

Fostering Services have undergone many changes in the last twenty years.

Children and young people previously thought unfosterable are now placed, are doing well and flourishing within foster care.

The search still goes on for placements for ever more difficult children and young people to give them an opportunity for a positive family experience.

In order to ensure the development of a successful Fostering Service, our aim is to provide a professional childcare service from within a family base.

Our foster carers are regarded as professionals in their integrity, level of skills, commitment and their philosophy of providing ‘alternative family’ care for children and young people. Five Rivers operates on the principle that foster carers are our colleagues and fellow professionals working in the field of child care, and as such remunerate them accordingly, and our high expectations of foster carers are accordingly the same as for all professionals involved in childcare.

Five Rivers also shares all the information that it has with foster carers with whom we work, so that they can be professional and informed in their decision-making.

Five Rivers is committed to involve other agencies, young people and their families in a consultation manner that allows service delivery and the ongoing development of Five Rivers to occur.

The service has also developed strategies and systems that are linked to providing successful outcomes for young people based on the every child matters framework.