Welcome to the Positive Aspirations Group fostering community.By choosing to foster with us you have joined a team that places children’s safety, healing and lifelong potential at the centre of everything we do. This handbook is designed to give you quick, accurate and trauma‑informed guidance for day‑to‑day fostering and to sign‑post you to our full...
The Positive Aspirations Group – Our Trauma-Informed CommitmentAt Positive Aspirations Group we know that many children and young people who come intocare have lived through experiences that can feel unsafe, unpredictable or overwhelming.Our core value therefore extends beyond “best care”; we are committed to building healingenvironments where every child can rediscover safety, trust and hope...
1. Purpose and ethos Children and young people sometimes leave or stay away from their foster home when they feel frightened, overwhelmed, unsafe or drawn to people/places connected with earlier experiences. Our collective objective is to understand the need beneath the behaviour, keep them safe, and strengthen their sense of security and belonging. Your actions...
1. Core Principle Every accident or injury is treated as a safeguarding and well-being event, not just a medical issue. Our response should restore the child’s sense of safety, regulate emotions, and preserve trusting relationships. 2. Immediate Response (the first moments) 3. Notifications Who Time-scale Reference Supervising social worker (SSW) Immediately by phone Notifiable Incidents...
(Last reviewed 09/05/2025) Underpinning legislation Fostering Regulations: 15 – Health of children placed with foster parents. Children Act 1989: Section 22 – General duties of local authority in relation to children looked after by them; Sections 61 and 62 – duties of voluntary organisations and local authorities in relation to children accommodated by or on...