Five Rivers is a leading independent, Social Enterprise working with 'Looked-after Children' in need of specialist care services in the UK and Ireland for kids aged 8 to 17.
Facilities
Five Rivers is built on a systems-based approach integrating Five Fundamental services to provide children and young people who were neglected or abused, subject to trauma, or needing specialist mental well-being help.
Always striving to implement evidence-based practice, Five Rivers as a social enterprise, reinvests into developing services to improve children’s experiences and turning children’s lives around.
Children and young people are cared for with authentic warmth, with adults trained in skills in providing developmental, attachment and trauma informed care (D)ATIC. Supported by clinical teams of child psychologists and therapists specialising in work, headed up by leading practitioners across each of the services, Five Rivers has been at the forefront of therapeutic provision for 30 years, partners of choice to many local authorities and health CCG’s. – High Impact, Sector Leading.
Features
Things to note
Foster care provides vulnerable children and young people with an opportunity to rediscover their childhood in a safe, stable and caring family environment, that’s backed with the knowledge and expertise of experienced care professionals.
Children and young people come into foster care for a number of reasons; it could be that somebody in their family is unwell and unable to care for them, or home may not be a safe or stable environment. As a foster care provider, it is their responsibility to match those children with a foster family that can provide a safe place and support.
Residential children’s homes provide children and young people with the best suited living environment to meet their needs and ensure their personal development and happiness.
The purpose of Assessment & Therapy in child care services is to help the child or young person, or foster carer, to understand a young person’s past and present. The therapeutic approaches that may be adopted thereafter are to help maintain and maximise their independence to develop practical life skills so that they can participate to their full potential in the home and classroom environment.
Standard placement of one child or young person – approx. £430 per week, per child
Specialist foster placements – payment based on the child or young person’s needs
Parent and child placements – approx. £849 per week (one parent, one child)
Sibling placements – approx. £849 per week (two children or young people)
Respite placements – nightly rate based on the fee received by the main carer
Solution28 fostering (28-day placements) – approx. £646 per week (one child). Please note this type of fostering is only available to those living in Gloucestershire, Bristol, Swindon, The Forest of Dean and surrounding areas.
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