Children and Young People's Services

Children’s Placements Service

Beacon Status

Bexley has been awarded Beacon Status for its Foster Care Services.

Bexley's child care policy and practice emphasises the importance of retaining children wherever possible within their families, and where this is not possible, in substitute families within the local community.

Since 1990, Bexley has made significant improvements to its fostering resource so that a child will only be placed in a residential home if it is clearly in that child's best interests. The borough places over 76% of looked after children in family placements.

There are four areas where Bexley is a leader in good practice:

professional support for foster carers and NVQ training
supporting children leaving care
independent advocacy and involvement of children and young people

In this section of this site, you can read about the Council's Beacon Status, and why it was awarded. Click on a link below to read more.

About our Beacon Status - Overview of what our status means and how we were selected for it.
The Beacon Application - The full bid we submitted (90KB, pdf file).
Quality Protects Management Action Plan - This document is the Council plan for ensuring that high quality services are delivered for children (331KB, Excel file).
Get in touch - How to contact us to make your opinions known, get more information or become involved in foster caring.