Therapeutic foster care for children in Essex & Suffolk

We are a unique foster care agency based in Essex, serving the East of England rated Outstanding by Ofsted.

Everything we do is about improving the lives of children who have had a difficult start in life, help them come to terms with their past, and develop a successful future.

We do this by recruiting great people. To ensure we keep great people, we offer an outstanding package of support, so we guarantee to be there when needed.

Work with us, let's change childrens' lives for the better.

Who we are

Mosaic Foster Care is owned by a social worker with 23 years of experience, who set up the agency with a colleague in 2010.

About Mosaic Foster Care

What we do

SMILE is our integrated therapeutic approach which supports, and helps enable, our foster parents to deliver therapeutic parenting.

Integrated therapeutic approach

How we support you

Our foster parents enjoy first class support, and allowances for you and your foster child can be up to £707 per week.

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New to fostering?

Read about the experience of one of our recently approved foster parents to see how we ease you into fostering gradually with our guided start'

Newly approved foster parents story

The fun stuff

At Mosaic one of our values is to be “Inspirational – To adopt an attitude and culture where creativity and adaptability are core.”

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Frequently asked questions

Thinking about fostering? Find out more about becoming a foster parent in Essex or Suffolk with Mosaic Foster Care.

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“The support we receive is second to none,
the agency gets better and better year after year”

Foster Parent for 10 years - from our recent Outstanding Ofsted report

Latest news & fostering insights

Resilience in Foster Carers - The Fostering Network article with Mosaic Foster Care

Resilience in Foster Carers – The Fostering Network article with Mosaic Foster Care

Check out this article on Resilience in Foster Carers that featured our Registered Manager Greg de Smidt, in a Fostering Network blog https://www.thefosteringnetwork.org.uk/blogs/dom-tfn/resilience-foster-carers …
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What is Therapeutic Parenting?

What is Therapeutic Parenting?

Someone asked me this week to describe what Therapeutic Parenting is and I thought long and hard about the answer. My mind went blank how to capture therapeutic parenting in words? Searching in the English Dictionary I found that to be therapeutic means “that you cause someone to feel happier …
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Where we foster children

We specialise in providing foster care in South Essex, North Essex and Suffolk, and currently work with foster carers in Basildon, Southend on Sea, Colchester, Ipswich, Sudbury and Brentwood.

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Mosaic Foster Care are members of the International Centre for Therapeutic CareMosaic Foster Care have security certification from Cyber Essentials

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COVID 19 – BUSINESS AS USUAL

HOW WE ARE KEEPING EVERYONE SAFE @ MOSAIC FOSTER CARE

It’s up to all of us to slow the spread of COVID-19.  At Mosaic Foster Care we have put into place new systems to ensure we still deliver our Outstanding service during these very difficult times.   We are following Government guidance which can be found at: www.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response. 

HOME VISITS 

As part of our process we meet you at home and chat about what fostering with Mosaic Foster Care looks like and answer any questions you may have.  Please be assured we are conducting these adhering to strict COVID regulations.

SUPPORT  

Support is still being provided for our Carers and Young People whether it is by video call, over the phone or in some circumstances in person, always being mindful of the guidance, and the frequency has been increased to better support them during these difficult times.   

Our Supervising Social Workers, Therapists and Support Staff are in constant contact with everyone they look after and the office staff are working remotely to ensure that our service is not interrupted. 

TEAM COMMUNICATION 

Everyone in the Mosaic Team is meeting up regularly via video call and we are pleased to say that as far as possible, it really is ‘Business as usual’ for us.  

MEETINGS AND REVIEWS 

Again, these are continuing over the phone and via video calls with external professionals to ensure that everyone is kept safe. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us and one of our team will be in touch: info@mosaicfostercare.com.

All our video calls are conducted via secure end-to-end encryption.

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