Expansion of Diocesan fostering charity

The Diocesan family charity, Parents And Children Together, is expanding its fostering arm after the successful fledging of a long-term placement service aimed at black families local to its Reading HQ.

95 years old this year, PACT is opening its net to any family in the three counties which can offer a long-term home to a child in care.

Foster Service Manager, Sarah Pepys, said: ‘We have demonstrated that the agency’s strength lies in finding permanent replacement families for some of the most challenging children and in supporting the people who take them into their homes.

‘We would not have been able to consider an expansion had we not had such wholehearted encouragement from our existing foster carers.’

PACT Fostering can be contacted on 0118 938 7600 or through their website www.pactcharity.org. You could also attend the PACT Annual Lecture at Oxford Brookes University’s Lloyd Lecture Theatre on September 27. The speaker will be international author and lecturer Sue Gerhardt. She will explore how the earliest relationships shapes the baby’s nervous system and how the development of the brain can affect future emotional wellbeing.