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The centralised fostering and adoption
team is responsible for recruitment, support and training
of foster carers and adopters.
Every child should be placed within
their own community allowing continuity of family contact,
school, leisure and cultural and religious activities.
Placements should meet the child’s
ethnic, cultural and religious needs
Siblings groups should be placed
together where possible.
Carers are trained to a high standard
and understand the principles of working in partnerships
with parents. Two carers have obtained SVQ level in
Child care
Counselling is offered to adopted people, birth parents
and adoptive parents. Support groups for adopters are
in place in partnership with East and North Ayrshire.
A programme of support/training has been purchased
from Adoption UK during 2003.
80 % of Adoption Counselling enquiries
are from the people who wish to find out about their
origins. From April 2000 until December 2002 a total
of 29 was received for Origin counselling.
We provide adoptive and permanent
placements for children through membership of BAAF,
West of Scotland Family Placement Consortium and Glasgow
and West of Scotland Adoption Service.
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