Are you caring for Children in Care, under Kinship Care or have an adopted child?  Furze Platt recognises the commitment of Carers,  Kinship carers and Adoptive Parents. There are a growing range of external support available to families include the below resources.

 

Furze Platt is proud to have been awarded the RBWM Attachment Aware Schools Award.

 

 

 

 

The Designated Teacher/Deputy Headteacher

Miss L Lewis

Laura.lewis@furzeplatt.net

 

 

 

Kinship Care

 

 Kinship carers are family or friends who step up, often during an unexpected crisis, to care for a child when their parents aren’t able to. 

 

Kinship caring includes:

 

- informal kinship care

- kinship foster care

- private foster care

- Special Guardianship

- Child Arrangement Orders

- testamentary guardianship

- adoption 

 

 

https://kinship.org.uk/ Provides a wealth of knowledge and guidance for Kinship carers

 

 

Adoption and Special Guardianship support fund 

https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/adoption-support-fund

Adoption South East

Post adoption support adoptionsoutheast.org.uk

 

PACT adoption support

Adoption Support | Adoption Child Support | PACT UK pactcharity.org

 

 

If you live in the below Boroughs, please find contact details for support 

 

RBWM

 

Achieving for Children Kinship Support : https://padlet.com/achievingforchildrenvirtualschool/kinship-care-support-rbwm-guwzzz80yw0gyg0s

 

Thames Valley Adoption 

Adoption Support adoptthamesvalley.co.uk

 

 

Slough: 

 

Kinship support https://www.sloughchildrenfirst.co.uk/what-we-do/kinship/

 

Buckinghamshire

 

Special Guardianship as Support  https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/care-children-and-families/special-guardianship/