The Children's Family Trust - the fostering agency

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font color="white">The Children's Family Trust (The CFT) is an independent child care agency which provides long-, and short-term foster placements. The CFT is a registered charity. </font> <p></p> <div align="center"> <table width="122" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/top/boat.jpg" alt="The CFT -" height="92" width="200" border="0"></td> <td><img src="images/top/title.gif" alt="The Children's Family Trust" height="30" width="538" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img src="images/top/sea.jpg" alt="" height="36" width="750" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <p></p> <p><b>Welcome to the Children's Family Trust.</b></p> </div> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">The Children's Family Trust provides secure, supportive and nurturing foster homes for children in need. In 2003 the Trust broadened its work from a narrow focus on permanent care for children who need long-term fostering, to include those needing short-term care.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">A study in 1997 ("Foster Care in Crisis" by the National Foster Care Association) showed that children in care were -</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><b>12</b> times more likely to leave school with no qualification  </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><b>10</b> times more likely to be excluded from school</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><b>60</b> times more likely to end up homeless</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><b>4 </b>times more likely to suffer from mental health problems</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><b>88</b> times more likely to be drug abusers.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif">The study went on to show that the children of these young people were themselves <b>66</b> times more likely to also end up in "public care", and at an earlier age.<br> <br> The CFT aims to break that cycle by providing children with the basis from which they can successfully grow as individuals to become responsible self-supporting members of society. The way this is done is by ensuring that each child in its care is given the right family environment and support as well as by giving the foster carers themselves the training and professional support they need, too.<br> <br> There are at any one time, approximately 60,000 "looked after children"  i.e. in care.<br> <br> With a long and successful history of looking after such children, the work of the Trust is needed as much now as it has ever been.</font></p> <div align="center"> <p><font size="2" color="#d10011" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><b>PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SITE USES FRAMES, IF YOU SEE THIS PAGE YOU NEED TO TRY A DIFFERENT WEB BROWSER. </b></font></p> </div> </body>