About Us
Mission: Enable a new generation of qualified skilled workforce, providing high standards of care in nurturing knowledgeable, trauma-informed homes.
There is no recognised education for foster carers and the government’s National Minimum Standards and regulations around the training are.
It then becomes very much a postcode lottery as to the standard, availability and access to quality education.
NFCQs have been developed in response to this.
NFCQs mission is to enable a new generation of qualified skilled workforce, providing high standards of care in nurturing knowledgeable, trauma-informed homes.
The outcomes for children who have been in the care system remain dispiriting, according to government statistics only 7% of foster children pass GCSEs compared to 40% of their non-looked-after peers, care leavers comprise 25% of the homeless, 24% of the prison population and over 40% of care leavers are not in education, employment or training.
Retention of foster carers has also been highlighted in recent reports, 1 in 3 newly qualified foster carers are de-registered within 18 months.
Recruitment is struggling as people are no longer responding to the long-established misleading narrative of what it is to be a foster carer.
How can the NFCQ Help?
- Educating foster carers and equipping them with high-quality qualifications and skills.
- A comprehensive standardised education framework will impact the outcomes for children.
- It will impact placement stability by empowering foster carers to fully understand their role and work in a trauma-informed way.
- It will encourage a diverse demographic of the population to look at fostering in a new light.
- NFCQs will produce outstanding foster carers who will become the gold standard, with enduring placement stability and exceptional outcomes for children.