A Brief Introduction for Children, Young People and Their Families

MTFCE is a special fostering project to help children and young people who have difficulties that affect different parts of their lives. They may want help to get on better with their friends or family, or to get on better in school.

Each young person has their own tailor-made programme that addresses all parts of their life and helps them to recognise their successes. They are placed with foster carers in their own borough, and their family is closely involved if they have contact.

Each child or young person has a skilled team of professionals working with them. The team aims to help them to improve their relationships with their family and friends, to help them do better at school, to help them stay out of trouble, and most importantly of all, to help them feel better about themselves. The goal is to promote stability and the ability to live in a family whether the outcome is a return home to birth or extended family, to long term fostering or adoption.

MTFCE uses an approach to fostering developed in the USA which has been shown to make a real difference to children and young people over there. So the British government has invested over £20 million since 2002 to set it up over here.