Specialist foster care for children with disabilities

Founded in 2001, TLC Wales is an independent fostering agency based in Crosshands, Camarthenshire. We were established specifically to provide family placements for children and young people from birth to 18 with disabilities and complex needs. We provide short-term, long-term, respite and palliative family placements for children and young people from birth to 18 with a range of disabilities and complex needs, including learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders, hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, genetic disorders and life limiting conditions.

Fostering with us

TLC Wales recruits and supports specialist foster carers solely to care for children and young people with disabilities and additional needs.

We offer short and long term foster care, respite and palliative fostering for children and young people with disabilities.

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Success with TLC

“Fostering is a hugely rewarding job. We get to see children in our care develop and become part of our family.”

“We’ve been given brilliant support from the team at TLC, which enables us to give our best support to the young person in our care. Thanks to all.”

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Could you do it?

We’re always on the lookout for foster carers. We’re behind you every step of the way, with training and support throughout.

TLC Wales is currently looking for foster carers who want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with disabilities who need a supportive and stable home environment specific to their needs.

What’s new?

Events

Events planned for May 2013

13th and 20th May TLC is holding an information stand with a difference in Swansea City Centre.

Foster Care Fortnight is run by leading children’s charity the Fostering Network and following this year’s theme ‘Get in the frame’, TLC is asking members of the public, foster carers, children who foster, and potential foster carers to come down to our stand on Oxford Street, Swansea (opposite) Marks and Spencer’s on 13^th and 20^th May and pose ‘in the frame’ to raise awareness of fostering and the need to recruit more foster carers.

We will also be holding information sessions at TLC offices in Crosshands throughout May:

Address: Tan y Fron

Pontarddulais Road

Crosshands

SA14 6PG

If you would like to ‘drop in’ to TLC offices in Crosshands to find out more about how you can foster with TLC, please ring 01269 846371 to make an appointment anytime during the month of May.

Latest testimonial

"We’ve been given brilliant support from the team at TLC, which enables us to give our best support to the young person in our care. Thanks to all."

Latest success story

More success stories

AGM and Foster Carer Long Service Awards 15^th April 2013.

After a very warm welcome to everyone and a presentation by Judith Gibby, Head of Service for TLC, long service certificates and payments of £1,000 & £500 for 10 and 5 years respectively were presented to Carers by Caroline Ellis, Operations Director and Kevin Bailey Project Manager of Caretech to acknowledge carers support and commitment to TLC.

Certificates for 10 years’ service were presented to 7 fostering households and Certificates for 5 years’ service were presented to 16 households.

Caroline Ellis expressed heartfelt thanks and appreciation from Caretech for the highly specialist work and loyalty of TLC Carers and said that she and the management of Caretech highly valued TLC as a service.

Foster carers agreed that long service and loyalty to TLC was much to do with the supportive environment provided by both staff and other carers at TLC.

Eryl John said that both she and her husband Ray who have been carers with TLC since 2012 felt that “although they had not been at TLC as long as some carers that the support of both staff and other carers made them feel as though they were part of a family and this was important to them.”

Michelle Morgan who received a 5 year award said she felt it was “important for everyone to remember that TLC is a Specialist Agency. Carers need to have a go, roll up their sleeves and try to meet the challenges posed by children and young people with hugely complex needs and challenging behaviour. We all have to start somewhere, and with good support it can make such a difference to children & young people needing placements. ”

(Picture: Caroline Ellis, Operations Director Caretech, Sarah Grenfell Foster Carer 10 years service)

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