Social Care Support
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'An individualised management plan sets out the intervention and support needs identified during assessment and diagnosis of FASD. The plan signposts the child or young person with FASD and their family to resources and services. It covers the basic and immediate needs of the child or young person after assessment as well as their long-term needs.
Because FASD has lifelong effects, a staged management plan may be needed to anticipate upcoming problems at planned intervals and revision should be considered at all transition stages in the person's life. A management plan also helps people with FASD, their families, carers and service providers to understand and address the associated challenges. The plan helps to coordinate care across a range of healthcare professionals, as well as education and social services, and improves outcomes.'
NICE Quality Standards FASD
We tailor our bespoke 'FASD-Informed' sessions around your services and the needs of the families you support; every session is unique because we consider the caseload you support, the blend of your community & the difference it will make to every case you consider in the future.
FASD continues to be a frequently misunderstood condition, those who are not appropriately trained or knowledgeable can often make inaccurate assumptions due to the fact that many individuals with FASD can superficially present as more able than they actually are, due to their spiky cognitive and neurodevelopmental profiles.
With up to 428 co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions common to FASD, spanning across 18 of 22 chapters of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) -10. The most prevalent disease conditions include congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities, mental and 'behavioural' disorders..... we consider the symptoms and look outside the box for a way forward.
Legislation supporting change...
Rising need
'There has been rising need for children’s social care over the past decade, with the number of looked-after children increasing of over 20% since 2014.
There are a number of reasons for this rise in need, including reduction in support for early intervention; an increase in the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; rising poverty and cost-of-living pressures; and an increase in referrals for extra-familial harms.'
The care system
The House of Commons Social Care Inquiry....
Department for Education data shows that, in 2024, 56,390 looked-after children (67%) were in foster care, 8,640 (10%) were in secure homes or children’s homes, and 2,220 (2%) were placed for adoption. There are no official statistics on children in kinship care, but the charity Kinship estimates that there are more than 141,000 children living in kinship care in England and Wales—three times the number in unrelated foster care.
'The Department for Education should review the educational support available to adopted children and make funding for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund permanent to end the annual cliff-edge of uncertainty faced by families as they wait for funding to be renewed.'
Childrens Social Care; Education Committee House of Commons Inquiry 2025
Department for Education, Children looked after in England including adoptions, November 2024