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About Core Children’s Services

At Core Children’s Services, we recognise that in order to address a child or young person’s individual and holistic needs they or their family may require tailored support from a number of different services and professionals at different times.

We therefore specialise in providing a team around the family and child that offers an integrated service that maintains the child’s needs central to all of our work.

Underpinning every act of our service delivery is a passion to making a real difference to children and young people’s lives.

Quality Standards

We have developed our own Quality Standards that ensure our commitment to:

1. Meeting the individual needs of children and families
2. Promoting children’s safety
3. Valuing diversity
4. Enabling children to lead fulfilling lives and to have fun
5. Empowering children and their families to express their wishes and needs, and to make choices
6. Supporting family relationships
7. Treating children and families with respect and in a non-discriminatory manner
8. Delivering positive outcomes for children and families
9. Ensuring efficient and effective administration of services to children and their families
10. Having excellent management and leadership
11. Fulfilling contractual agreements and maintaining excellent working relationships with commissioners and partners
12. Being a learning organisation

We strive to meet our goals

Our primary goal at Core Children’s Services is to meet the wider needs of vulnerable children. We believe that every child has the potential to succeed and through the delivery of an integrated package of support, we can deliver positive outcomes.

As a provider of Children’s Services, we ultimately strive to meet the individual needs of our customers.
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Our vision

At Core Children’s Services, we strive to:

1. Be the national provider that delivers positive outcomes for children, young people and their families making a positive and lasting difference to people’s lives
2. Deliver quality and compliance and safeguard vulnerable people through, holistic and flexible services to children, young people and their families
3. Recruit, develop and retain great people to deliver excellent services
4. Apply a solution-focussed approach to the market and deliver cost-effective, sustainable growth
5. Work in collaboration with a range of partners utilising creative synergy, to innovate and ensure best outcomes

Our people have the experience and expertise

Our teams of social care professionals, education specialists and qualified therapists can work with individual children to help them overcome their personal challenges and maximise their strengths. They can work with families to support their understanding of the demands of parenting and child development.
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We know how to be successful

Throughout this website, our success occurs in a number of places. We understand how to be successful - successful for children, successful for families, and successful for our partners.
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Our development

Core Children’s Services was originally founded as the dynamic new arm of Foster Care Associates (FCA), the UK’s leading Independent Fostering Agency. We have built upon FCA's acknowledged expertise and enviable reputation for delivering high quality social care and education, to offer our customers a range of Children’s Services, using the talents of our qualified and motivated children's workforce.

Corporate Governance

Core Children’s Services is part of the Core Assets Group of Companies.
Core Assets Group Ltd provides an international portfolio of services in the sector of social care and fostering, offering innovative business solutions to the care sector. The Group currently operates in four continents with a collective 1000+ employees worldwide.
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