Within fostering we have been promoting
recruitment of new foster carers which will save money for the
council if we provide in house placements rather than moving
children to IFA’s often outside of the local area. We have
funding remaining in the Transformation Fund and would like to
recruit a SSW/Assessor on a temporary basis to support the
assessment service so we are not keeping applicants waiting to be
assessed and approved as foster carers. This post will help us to
create more capacity within the team and move carers through to
approval more efficiently. This post is in addition to the workers
that we already have in the team it is not a vacant post.