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The Foetally Affected Children's Service (FACS) team is made up of an ‘actual’ team of social workers, psychologist and support worker employed by TACT and ‘virtual’ additional experts including a consultant paediatrician, play therapist, speech therapist. The team provides a range of expert advice, assessment and training.
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Many children being referred for family finding for adoption have care histories where the birth mother has used alcohol and or other drugs during pregnancy, and the impact of this has not been adequately assessed or considered in the permanency planning framework. This can lead to significant potential consequences for adoptive parents making decisions about future care needs of children. In our view anyone working with looked after children, fostering or adoption should be aware of the issues involved in maternal drug misuse and the impact of this on foetal development and consequences for future care planning. Through our FACS project, we aim to: • assess referred children within a multi disciplinary framework • raise awareness of FAS to local authorities, foster carers, adopters, medical professionals, teachers, police etc via training and individual consultations • provide quality adoptive placements via specific family finding for foetally affected children