Welcome to Leicester Foster Care Association
The Leicester Foster Care Association is YOUR organisation – set up by Leicester foster carers to help and support carers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Here you can find other carers, who can:
- Listen to you – Your concerns and worries, ideas or problems or
who will listen, if you just want a chat or a sympathetic ear; - Care and Act for you – Support you, help you, advise you and to
represent you if that’s what you want; - Promote your worth, knowledge, expertise and professionalism;
- Act for you in partnership with other carers, Leicester City
Council, Independent Advisors, the Fostering Network and other
fostering organisations.
Contact the L.F.C.A. if you are worried about:
- Complaints or allegations made about you.
- Communication difficulties with Social Workers.
- If you feel you are not being listened to.
- Child Care Issues.
- Coping with difficult behaviors.
- Representation at Meetings.
L.F.C.A. runs a 24-hour Help Line for Foster Carers. If you have any worries or concerns, please contact us:
Pam: 07958 587443 or Roger: 0116 2109209 or 07960 697119
| Events | NEW CHARTER FOR FOSTER CARERS. |
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| Dates of Meetings.
ALL FOSTER CARERS ARE WELCOME – PLEASE COME ALONG. All meetings are at 10.30am till 12pm, unless stated and held at the Fostering office, 11, friar Lane,Leicester. Please watch this space for dates of future meetings. |
As you will of heard on the news and in the news papers, a new Charter for Foster Carers was put into force from April 2011. This is a great acheivement in establishing a better postive position for ALL foster carers, not only here in Leicestershire, but all over the UK.The charter is being out into place, to help foster carers get a better deal, the principles are to give foster carers information on what support they should receive and what to expect. |
| CALLING FOSTER CARER’S
THE L.F.C.A. NEED YOU! We are looking for more volunteers who can help and join the L.F.C.A. Committee. Could you give a couple of hours a month to attend our monthly meeting? Are you Interested in the way Foster Carer’s are treated and Can you give over your ideas and listen to others? Being a foster carer yourself, you KNOW all the pro’s and con’s, and understand how other foster carers can feel at times, you will learn from the L.F.C.A. as all of our members have, that the L.F.C.A. is a vital source of help and information and we are there to help foster carers, like yourself. So if you feel you could help, we are not asking anything more than coming to our meeting and just being part of our friendly team. If you are interested, email us, telephone one of us or pop along to our next meeting. We really look forward to hearing from you, if you can help. |
NEWS FLASH!
Watch this space about the new
HOTLINE
0116 2211312
for
foster carers to be able to have more control over their taxi arrangements!
Go to the Moans & Groans page….
Twin Lakes season tickets
See the Twin Lakes link.
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Allegations
Becoming the subject of an Allegation is always stressful. Foster Families should be provided with INDEPENDENT support at this time, and we, at L.F.C.A. are here to offer 24hr support, by means of support and advise.