Service Description: The Family Link Scheme provides short breaks for a child with a disability or a serious, chronic medical condition. The breaks take place with a Family Link carer, usually based in their own home. Sometimes Family Link carers help to support a child in specific activities, such as Brownies or Cubs. The scheme has been very successful in providing long-term links for children. Positive relationships have developed between the child, their family and the carers and their families. Everyone benefits because the essence of Family Link is that people can share fun and activities in a normal setting. The scheme is a member of a national charity called Shared Care Network. Their web site can provide more details, please click the web link provided.
Also known as:- Fostering Service
Answer: Registered childminders look after your child along with other children in their own home, they are allowed to care for up to six children under the age of eight, including their own but only three of them can be under the age of five. Self employed, they decide on working hours, most are willing to work early mornings, some are also willing to work evenings and weekends and most drop off and pick up from local schools. All childminders are required to have completed a basic training course, including first aid, and most go on to do further training and proffessional development. - Related Link