We provide an integrated fostering service that provides a high level of support for carers who foster young people with challenging behaviour. Intensive Fostering can provide the care and support missing from a young person’s life at a time when they need it most.
The young people we place are aged 12 — 18 and have often had difficult or damaging experiences in their lives. This may have included neglect and abuse. Caring for these young people is challenging, but also very rewarding. We want these young people to become members of safe and caring families, where they will have a chance to fulfil their potential.
Our professional foster carers are over 21 years and no more than around 40 years older than the young people placed with them. Our foster families reflect the diversity of our communities and come from all walks of life. They have had previous experience with adolescents developing into adulthood through volunteering, parenting or working. As professional foster carers they acknowledge the difference between parenting their own and other peoples’ children. They work as part of a professional team along side relevant people and professionals involved in meeting the young peoples’ unique needs.
View and download our latest inspection reports for Intensive Fostering Service:
Care Commission Inspection Sept 08 Care Commission Inspection June 07 Care Commission Inspection Aug 06Listen to and download our audio podcasts, with stories from both foster carers and young people in the care of Intensive Fostering Service.
What’s It Like to be an IFS Carer?What’s it like to be in foster care?