Safeguarding in our Foster Care Service
Diagrama Fostering has a safeguarding theme which runs through everything we do. Our foster carers are fully trained in this area to understand the importance of following safeguarding procedures so that working in this way becomes second nature. All our foster children have up-to-date risk assessments which are shared with foster carers, local authority social workers - and the children where possible. Diagrama Fostering runs safeguarding training annually to ensure that we remain up to date about safe practices and new developments in the field.
“Close relationships between children and young people and their foster carers underpin good safeguarding. One young person said that she felt comfortable talking with her foster carers about anything. She said: ‘I used to hate going home. I was on the streets and not going to school. I now love spending time at home with my foster carers and go to school regularly”
Ofsted inspection, 2019
Who monitors our foster care service for quality
The quality of Diagrama’s Fostering Service is monitored (and inspected) by a number of qualified professionals:
Safeguarding arrangements are sound. The agency ... tenaciously ensure the protection of children’s welfare.
Ofsted inspection, 2019
Diagrama Fostering uses a variety of arrangements to monitor and evaluate the quality of its services. These include:

Our foster carers receive exceptional training to maintain high standards of care
Our training is delivered by subject experts and aims to provide all our foster carers with a broad range of skills and understanding of the types of challenges they may face when fostering or adopting a child. All our training comes with practical guidance too with tools and resources required to provide a child or young person with a safe, loving environment. Our foster carer training programme is ongoing and regularly updated.