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Nexus Fostering receives LILAC award

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:06:00

In Spring 2011, care-experienced young people, using standards devised by their peers to reflect what is important to them, inspected Nexus Fostering. The standards relate to the involvement of young people in the planning and evaluation of services and in planning their own lives, and the effectiveness of complaints and advocacy processes.

A new look for Nexus Fostering, but the same outstanding service!

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:05:00

You may have noticed a few changes recently. We felt it was time to freshen up our look, so this summer we hired some professional marketing expertise and the most obvious changes will be those which everyone can see just by visiting our revamped Facebook page, our revitalised Twitter account, and, of course, our new, modern looking logo.

ISW Form F Assessors needed in East Midlands

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:05:00

We are expanding our outstanding service provision so if you are suitably qualified and can provide high quality, professionally intuitive fostering assessments then please call us on 0121 427 2500 for details. We are offering cash bonuses for high quality work completed within agreed target timescales.

New premises and the launch our new fostering service, Nexus Care+

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:04:00

We are delighted to announce the launch of our office base for the Ofsted-rated ‘Outstanding’ Nexus Fostering Midland Team who has moved to refurbished premises in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Now based within a beautiful period building, with landscaped grounds and stylish office space, from here we will continue to offer our looked after children and young people high quality placements and support.

Nexus Youth Council

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:04:00

We recently held our first youth council. This was an opportunity for our young people to meet with Grace and the senior managers to discuss the services and support we offer, what they value and their suggestions for improvements.

Trip to Madam Tussauds

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:04:00

In February, we took a group of young people to Madam Tussaud's in London. Here's what Simmi, one of our social workers had to say about their day out:

Apprenticeship Week

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:04:00

In March it was National Apprenticeship Week. We have our own apprentice at Nexus so to celebrate the week we spoke to Aria about her time at Nexus so far. Here’s what she had to say:

World Autism Awareness Week - Autism Training

Published on: 2014-10-28 10:04:00

It was World Autism Awareness Week recently. At Nexus we hold many training courses for our foster carers and one of the best attended is our Autism Training. Two of our foster carers who attended our most recent autism training gave us this useful feedback:

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