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A collaborative service for:
Cheshire East Council Cheshire West and Chester Halton Borough Council Knowsley Council Liverpool Council St Helens Council Warrington Borough Council Wiral Council
A collaborative service for:
Cheshire East Council Cheshire West and Chester Halton Borough Council Warrington Borough Council
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Why Wirral?

By fostering with Wirral Council, you’ll be making a difference to the most vulnerable children and young people from your local area.

Foster carers work in partnership with the team around the child in their care, and by becoming a foster carer with Wirral you’ll benefit from working directly with this team, including the child’s Social Worker, education and health professionals, resulting in better communication, support and outcomes for our children.

In Wirral we’re proud of the strong bonds our foster carers create with the children they care for. Being a foster carer for Wirral Council you know the children you care for are from your local area, providing them with stability during what can be a turbulent time. Enabling children and young people to remain close to their family, friends, school and familiar surroundings is imperative to their emotional wellbeing and leads to better outcomes.

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“The best thing about fostering for Wirral Council is knowing the children we care for are from our local community. This allows us to form lasting relationships, well into adulthood. It’s amazing when they grow up and call in to see us as working young adults with their own families. Nothing can beat that proud feeling.”

Sue, Wirral Council Foster Carer

Benefits

Being a Foster Carer is hugely rewarding on many levels, but it also takes lots of practical provision to make it possible. We are very proud of the role our foster carers play and in recognition of this we provide an extensive package of benefits and rewards.

We offer:

Youth Events & Support

Support Groups

Events

Rep Group

Extra Benefits

Support Services

Achievements

Leisure Discount

Training

Equipment

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Support

Our committed support is evidenced by our strong professional relationships with our foster carers and high retention rate. We have many carers who have been with us for 10, 20, 30+ years! We offer support that is both practical and emotional, to ensure you’re well equipped to undertake the fostering role, and know you’re never on your own.

Social Work Support

We offer:

  • Your own dedicated Fostering Social Worker, who will see you regularly to ensure your wellbeing, celebrate your successes and work through any concerns. They ’re also available via telephone, email and to meet in between visits as required. They ’ll undertake a more formal ‘supervision’ with you.
  • A worker on duty in the fostering team all day, every day during office hours.
  • A 24/7 out-of-hours emergency support staffed by Wirral Council Social Workers
  • An Independent Review service, made up of a team of Independent Reviewing Officers, including the fostering Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO). The service oversees the experience of the children and young people and hold our service to account on their behalf.
  • In addition, the child or young person living in your family will also have their own Social Worker to support them.
  • An active Foster Carers Forum, which we hold twice annually. This is another opportunity to input to the development of the service. We often have guest speakers to further inform you of the support you can access.

Partner services

We offer:

As the Local Authority, we have a huge range of internal and external partner services. We also have a Multi-Agency Support Hub (MASH), based within our offices, which is made up of a team of professionals who support our children in care, beyond social work. These include:

  • The Police.
  • The Virtual school – who oversees the attainment and wellbeing of all children in care.
  • Health – each child has their own named Child in Care nurse who undertake their medicals.
  • Polaris.

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