Remand Fostering
We need more remand foster carers
We are urgently recruiting more foster carers to specialise in remand fostering. We would especially like to hear from people who may have worked with young offenders, including probation or youth justice workers, police and prison officers, youth workers or teachers.
Remand fostering offers a safe family accommodation for alleged young offenders from the age of 10 to 17, while they are awaiting trial or sentencing.
As a remand foster carer, you can provide the vital support a young person requires when they need it most. You can make a real difference to a young person’s life, giving them the inspiration and encouragement needed to provide them with a brighter and safer future.
What Is Remand Fostering?
Remand fostering offers a safe family accommodation for alleged young offenders from the age of 10 to 17, while they are awaiting trial or sentencing. Custody can be damaging for vulnerable young people, perpetuating a cycle of imprisonment and re-offending.
We believe that remand foster care offers young people the support needed to rethink their actions and to alter their behaviour.
Foster carers are sometimes nervous about taking on remand foster placements as they fear that the children and young people are much more complex. We will help you to develop the skills and knowledge that you need for this type of foster care. Often, foster carers already experienced in working with teenagers can easily make this transition.
Remand Fostering training
Whilst some previous experience of working with teenagers would be advantageous, no previous training is necessary to become a remand foster carer, as full and on-going training will be provided.
Our comprehensive training will provide you with the skills, knowledge and confidence to make a difference to young people who are currently awaiting sentencing. This training will be centred around behaviours and building self-esteem – with a focus on supporting attitude and behaviour changes using therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches.
Remand Fostering support
As a TACT foster carer, you will be allocated your own Supervising Social Worker, who will provide most of your support. We also provide full out-of-hours support, ensuring that help and support is available to you 24/7.
We understand that remand fostering can be daunting, but our support will provide full piece of mind that there will always be someone available to help you.
However, our support is more than just providing ad-hoc help and advise when you most need it. It is a commitment to long term foster carer wellbeing. This is why we organise social events such as meals, walks and meet-ups – in addition to our foster carer support groups.
We have also partnered with other apps such as Calm & Breathways, to create a full 360 support package.
Remand Fostering Fees
As a remand foster carer, you will receive an enhanced fostering fee and allowance when you have a young person placed with you. This enhanced fee recognises the complexities of the placement and the additional skills and experience you will need to take on this type of placement.
There are also some additional payments available, along with generous tax reliefs and other expenses that you can claim for.
Could you be a Remand Foster Carer?
Providing care to those young people who are awaiting trial or sentencing can be one of the most rewarding types of foster care. Using your skills, you will be one of the first professionals to instil a positive change in attitude and behaviour with a young person. You could provide an invaluable safe, caring and welcoming home whilst the child’s future interests are being investigated and planned.
If you feel that you could change a child’s life, you can make an enquiry today. Our team of enquiry officers will talk you through the process of becoming a foster carer with TACT. We are a charity, so we place no pressure on anyone to apply and make no profit from the care of young people. Fostering needs to be the right choice for you and your household.
“Fostering means everything to me, it can be hard work but it’s so rewarding.”
My fostering journey started more than 25 years ago, offering respite to children with special needs. Despite having four children of our own, the house always seemed so empty when the children in our care returned to their families. So we started fostering.
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