Charity partnership to help fostered children in Burgess Hill

By Carly-May Kavanagh
Published 9th Jun 2021, 14:12 BST
Watch more of our videos on Shots! 
and live on Freeview channel 276
Visit Shots! now
A Burgess Hill fostering agency has announced it is partnering with an education charity to help improve the lives of children and young people in foster care.

Orange Grove Foster Care has teamed up with the Award Scheme Development accreditation Network (ASDAN) to provide young people with the skillsets for work and life outside of care.

According to the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, children and young people in foster care are more likely than non-foster care children to miss school, have either special educational needs (SEN) or experienced past distressing life events, which in turn causing them not to finish their education.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

James McGarrigle, registered manager at Orange Grove Foster Care, said: “‘We continually strive to support the children in Orange Grove to the best of our abilities.

Diverse group of young people standing in school classroom smiling happily at camera and holding test certificates, copy spaceOrange Grove Foster Care has partnered with an education charity ASDAN SUS-210706-114022001Diverse group of young people standing in school classroom smiling happily at camera and holding test certificates, copy spaceOrange Grove Foster Care has partnered with an education charity ASDAN SUS-210706-114022001
Diverse group of young people standing in school classroom smiling happily at camera and holding test certificates, copy spaceOrange Grove Foster Care has partnered with an education charity ASDAN SUS-210706-114022001

“This often means looking at creative ways in which we can accomplish this.

“By tapping into the ASDAN resources, we are hoping to provide another layer of service for our children and young people.

“With the resources available, children and young people can learn, grow and further prepare themselves for the future.”

Hide Ad