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Services Provided
‘Foster caring has been harder than we expected but more worthwhile than anything we could imagine – and SWIIS helped to make that so.’’
‘My experience with SWIIS is that they give you the best training, explain everything, good backup and good link workers. Just everything!’’
A wide range of placements are available including:
- short term, longer term, or on a planned respite basis.
- permanent
placements - our new Permanent Families Service has just been
established to recruit "forever families" for children and young people
who need permanent care.
- bridging or other task-centred placements.
- placements for all ages, including older teenagers, sibling groups and children with disabilities.
- mother and baby placements
- assessment placements with full reports where required.
- short notice (unplanned) placements are subject to relevant risk assessments and the availability of suitable carers.
To find out more about the services we offer please contact your local office or the Permanence Service.
SWIIS Foster Care (Scotland) has pioneered a genuinely multi-disciplinary team approach with a focus on providing integrated services. This includes:
- a comprehensive package of social work, education, health and therapeutic support
- understanding children's needs and behaviour to maximise the opportunity for therapeutic re-parenting.
- working in close partnership with placing authority social workers, local education and health providers
- each child or young person having a care package that addresses all of their needs
- best value for children, carers and placing authorities alike
- work with local authorities to help them meet required Performance Indicators
- demonstrable positive indicators of improvement for young people in the key GIRFEC outcome areas.
- pre and post approval training –including
the opportunity to take relevant social care qualifications.
Scotland's Future Teachers
SWIIS TALKS TO SCOTLAND’S FUTURE TEACHERS
In March 2011, a collective of SWIIS representatives went along to the University of Strathclyde, Jordanhill Campus to deliver a half day workshop to Post Graduate teaching students undertaking the ‘LAC in Education’ module with Dr Graham Connelly. The representatives were “C” (young person), Carol (Foster Carer), Valsamina (Therapist), Jane (Senior Manager Education, Health & Wellbeing) and Kate (Director).
The session included a presentation on fostering in Scotland, input on the SWIIS Education Support Service model, how it links to GIRFEC and the promotion of Achievement for Looked After children and young people. Sections of the workshop were dedicated to an experiential exercise using Megan’s Story from the TFN Skills to Foster programme and an inspiring presentation by Valsamina on Attachment and Learning that helped the students to reflect on their approaches with young people in the classroom.
The participants were captivated by Carol and “C” candid accounts of their own experiences of being a foster carer working with SWIIS support teams, schools and college and of being a Looked After young person who has overcome barriers to succeed in education and become aspirational for C’s own future.
It was very poignant at the end of the day when students went to talk to Carol and “C” with one of them asking “C”, “If I was your teacher what should I do to help you?” The reply was, “Just listen to me...”
To hear more from Carol click on the attachment...
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Strathclyde Research
Please note this does not contain the appendices to the report - should you wish access to these please contact Ailsa Bremner, Head Of Education and Training at our HQ.
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Summary of Strathclyde Research
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