Children's care professionals services

Children's Placement Team

Our Children’s Placement Team finds placements for looked after children and young people between the ages of 0 and 18 years-old.

Placement management includes:

  • in-house foster placements
  • independent fostering agency (IFA) foster placements
  • parent and child foster placements
  • children's residential homes
  • residential parent and child placements
  • supported accommodation for young people aged 16 or over
  • out of borough notifications
  • concerns relating to individual placements and provisions
Children's Placement Team

: fostering.duty@thurrock.gov.uk

You can contact our Emergency Duty Team out side of normal office hours.