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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£455.8K
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Spending
£463.2K
Public benefits
FCS meets the public benefit by promoting relief to those in need. Services promote the health and well-being of adopted children and young people, adopted adults and those raised in care, adoptive parents and birth parents of children placed for adoption. Additionally, services offer support to partners and/or families of the above. The benefits
noted are core to FCS purposes. These are evidenced by: outcomes from service provision, reflected in FCS annual report; by formal feedback from clients; and inspections of FCS services by RQIA. FCS services are open to all sections of the public and provide no private benefit. The majority of FCS public benefit purposes have a direct benefit. These include: securing lifelong families in adoption for children in care; providing a support, counselling and tracing service for adults who were adopted or raised in care; providing a contact service for adopted children and young people and their birth families; and providing support to adoptive parents in the adoptive task. Indirect benefit is provided to social work staff and students in other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, through training and workshops provided by FCS staff; and through inputs at regional conferences.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
FCAS: secures adoptive families for vulnerable children; prepares and assesses such families; supports families created by adoption; provides counselling and support services to anyone affected by adoption; assists persons affected by adoption to trace birth family members; assists in reuniting adopted people and birth family members; provides life
story services to children and young people, adopted or in care, to assist with identity formation; provides counselling and support for family members of children placed for adoption without their consent.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Counselling/support
- Human rights/equality
- Youth development
