Statement of Purpose
Here, you can request a copy of our Statement of Purpose to learn more about who we are, what we statement for, and the values that guide our work.
Autism Support
Credo Care is experienced in meeting the needs of autistic children within foster care. Find out more by downloading our specialist free support guide below.
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Request our Statement of Purpose
This Statement of Purpose outlines the aims, objectives and guiding principles of Credo Care Fostering in accordance with The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011 and the National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services (2011). It provides a clear description of how Credo Care Fostering is structured, managed, and monitored to ensure it remains fit for purpose and delivers high-quality, child-centred care.
Statement of Purpose
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Inspirational Stories
Read about the members of our fostering community and their journey with autism.
Celebrating Casper
I can say I am very happy to have grown up fostering and for sure I am a better person because of it. Casper’s foster carer’s dedication to him and their desire to see him reaching his potential is a shining light.
Celebrating Autism & Fostering
The small steps she makes are amazing and for celebration. It can be challenging but exciting at the same time because every day holds a new adventure.
Fostering is wonderful, fostering an autistic child is amazing!
Celebrating Addison
Addison has made remarkable progress in his short time with his foster carers who have understood his needs and been reflective about how to not only meet those needs but also to find ways to help Addison to reach his full potential.
Fostering With Credo Care
At Credo Care, our priority is the best outcome for our fostering families and children or young people.
As a foster carer with us, you will have access to:
- A supervising social worker who will support and guide you throughout your fostering journey.
- Support worker/s who will be matched with your family to support the child or young person in your care.
- Specialist training, along with 24/7 support, 365 days a year.
- Guidance from an In-house behaviour and autism specialist.
- A mentor who is also an experienced foster carer.
- Membership to the Foster Talk.
- Professional Development in the form of fostering qualifications.
- Access to local support groups, giving you the opportunity to meet with other foster carers and receive face to face agency updates from members of the Credo team.
- A dedicated referrals and placements team. At Credo Care, a lot of consideration is given to introductions and planning, ensuring we match the right child for the foster family.
The Credo Care Family
We want every child and young person to have the opportunity to participate, achieve and enjoy being part of the Credo Care community.
Find out how we engage with our fostering community
We engage with our foster community through a variety of group activities, parties and activity and treat packs.
The Credo Care Choir
Over five weeks our foster families, social workers, staff, friends and family up and down the country learnt a song together online.
An AQA Recognised Centre
Credo Care is a recognised centre for an awarding body in England called AQA, formerly known as the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance. This means we can offer our children and young people the opportunity to work towards AQA Awards. The awards are designed to be accessed by all young people of school age of any ability, recognising achievements in all areas from academic subjects to life skills with more than 12,000 units available, ranging from pre-entry level up to level 5.
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We can even design our own units to showcase our children and young people’s strengths. Any completed and verified award results in a formal certificate for the young person to recognise their achievement. As an added extra, we like to send badges and rosettes to our young people when they achieve an AQA award.
Follow this link to find out more about AQA unit awards and to view the topics available at various levels:
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme
Credo Care is a licensed organisation for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. This scheme exists to allow young people aged 14 to 24 to engage in a true life experience. It is designed to be fun, to be non-competitive, to allow young people to discover new interests or talents and to develop those they already have. The award is a recognised mark of achievement by society, educational bodies and employers.
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At Credo Care, the scheme is open to our foster children and young people, the children and young people of our foster carers and members of staff. We have leaders and helpers registered throughout the agency to assist our young people as they embark on their Duke of Edinburgh journey.
The award requires the completion of four sections; Physical, Skill, Volunteering and Expedition. To enable our children and young people to participate in the scheme, adjustments are made, with each section of the award carefully tailored to allow for any difficulties a young person may face. A certificate is received for every milestone of an individual section being completed.
Follow this link to find out more about the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme: https://www.dofe.org/about/
#Credo’ssuper-duperamazingteam
In 2022, Credo Care launched The Home Improvers Group, #Credo’ssuper-duperamazingteam. This group includes some of the fostered children and young people of Credo Care and is lead by our Participation and Engagement Officers, Nikki Phillips and Michelle Dean. The name, hashtag and logo of the group was chosen and designed by the young members of The Home Improvers Group.
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At Credo Care, we believe it is very important to hear what our children and young people have to say about things that are important to them and this group gives them the opportunity to interact with each other and our Participation and Engagement Officers on a regular basis.
A recent contribution from the group were the questions they would like posed to prospective foster carers when at fostering panel.
Keep up to date with the amazing achievements of our children and young people by visiting our news page.
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