Compass Fostering Bewertungen 116

**Review of Compass Fostering**

I regret to share my experience at Compass Fostering, where I have encountered some significant challenges that have led me to feel quite dissatisfied. Unfortunately, I have found the management team and some members of the social work staff to exhibit bullying behavior, often twisting words and using them against those who seek support.

This environment has fostered a lack of trust and collaboration. Instead of feeling supported in our roles, there is a pervasive culture of fear and intimidation. It’s disheartening, especially in a sector dedicated to fostering care and support for children and families.

I believe that everyone deserves to work in an environment that values their contributions and promotes mutual respect. However, my experience at Compass Fostering has been quite the opposite. I hope that the management team can reflect on this feedback and take steps to create a more supportive and positive workplace for all foster carers.

Genuinely, I have had a great experience with Compass. They have supported me from my first enquiry all the way through assessment and the final panel. After approval, I have also received a great deal of support and guidance. I couldn't have asked for a better experience. If you are looking at becoming a foster carer, I would highly recommend Compass Fostering.

My assessment took a while but it felt very thorough and by the time it was happening, I understood why it needed to be so intense. The social worker I had was very supportive and freindly, and kept me up to date on what was happening. I have been fostering for 6 months now and can't imagine doing anything else. I get regular check ins with my social worker and the support groups are also a nice way to catch up with other carers and share experiences.

Stay away from this company!!!
I have had a daunting and soul damaging experience with this company. Their devious process plan has wasted months of my time, my passion to become a foster parent has been dented and my personality would never be the same as I was only couple of months ago.

Clear information and regular contact through the process. We felt comfortable that we were kept abreast of the progress made and fully supported with next steps.

Diabolical assessment process.

My husband and I have spent 4 months in the assessment process and have found communication to be very poor from the get go. Disinterested staff and calamitous administration across the board.

We were pushed into a fast-tracked panel approval being told we were effectively perfect until the panel assessment manager decided otherwise and began to question everything our assessing social worker had raised with us. Out of context and for the most part, seemingly irrelevant information was dredged out of nowhere, and we were accused of lying in the process which was stunning given the fact we threw ourselves fully into the whole process, attended all training and kitted our house our ready for children.

I would avoid this agency at all costs, especially if you have a criminal record for anything at all. Compass states they are looking for "potential, not perfection" but were were described by the assessment manager as "too perfect" on paper. We understood everyone else had signed off on us including the medical advisor and we should have been going to panel, but this particular assessment manager did not want to see us proceed any further, despite our social worker's report pretty much glowing on our credentials and motivations for fostering.

Clearly a very corporate and profit driven agency who absolutely are NOT child focused at all; potential applicants are treated as nothing more than profit centres for these money grubbers.

If you're thinking of fostering, choose anyone else but these people. Unprofessional from start to finish.

We were impressed with the empathetic, sensitive assessor who made time to get to know our birth child and hear their voice during our transfer.
Our induction and welcome to Compass has made us feel very respected and supported. It really provides us with peace of mind for when a child is placed.
We have found communication (whether it be support groups, carer ambassadors, s/workers or operational managers), excellent and we know we can trust these professionals to help us therapeutically meet the needs of any child placed in our care.

Helpful friendly thoughtful every time I contacted Compass.

Been employed by sunbeam over 2 years and have time say it's the best organisation I've worked in..brilliant staff amazing support from every member..Support team is very forthcoming and always go the extra mile.

I found the experience enjoyable and interesting. At times it was intense and I did expect it to be intrusive due to the nature of the subject, but to be honest I found it all okay. It was interesting, especially the family input and the feelings of support that was provided to me. Catherine the social worker was really nice and made the experience relaxing when she visited me. I was aware she would capture all the details and I know this is her job as she has to keep children safe. I was worried about my medical but that was okay too. I did feel trying to get refences really hard as some were so long ago, but it all went really well in the end. I would certainly recommend the process to family and friends

100% would not recommend using this agency. It has been an absolute night mare from the get go of us going through the assessment process to getting our first placement. When we got our first placement we wasn’t even allocated a supervising social worker until nearly 2 months into the placement. We have also been back and forward for months on end and still on going issues with our dog and the placement. We were advised by a dog assessor that they had sent out to get an exemption certificate because they are saying he told them that there is xl bully characteristics, which we did follow the advice given aswell as insuring the dog. In the process of assessment they destroyed have of my partners furniture. After this had happened they were all sweet with the dog being in the home until the Compass policy had changed, which we are still yet to see this ‘new’ policy.

We ended up voluntarily going to the police and seeking advice and guidance from them. Which they had come out and took the dog away for assessment and shortly after brought her home with no concerns at all and said that she is definitely not an xl bully type breed.

Now they are telling us we have to choose between the dog and continuing our fostering career.

Not only this but we have had absolutely no support at all from compass. This will not be the end for us.

Although the assessment process was very intense and extremely thorough, my assessing social worker was always there to help me through it step by step.
The Skills to Foster course was also intense but very educational and gave a good insight as to what is expected of every Foster Carer and also showed just how much support is there with each and every Foster Child etc which was reassuring.

brilliant members of staff, so warm and welcoming..
the training programme is excellent.

Very thorough process with lots of support throughout from a dedicated and passionate Conpass, social work team and independent panel assessors.

Excellent professional company with care and support to all who want to become foster parents. If you ever need a company to help you along the way Compass will be there for whatever questions you need answering. Total confidence you'll have on your journey to foster with Compass.

The information and help we recieved from compass and our social worker was very good, our carer to carer rings us on a weekly basis and asks how things are and is always there for us if we need him .we are very pleased with the company all the staff are very friendly and really helpful.

Very friendly, professional team, very helpful right up to panel day, then amazing how they match you to the right children. Great supervision, always there to help, cant fault them.

Compass are good until something goes wrong, then you are on your own!
They don't tell you the about what can go wrong and how open to attack you are being a foster carer, no mention during training. We were shocked by the way we have been abandoned and ignored.
I would never recommend Compass to anyone, they have not been any kind of support during a horrible time and have ruined a good family. Please think twice, especially if you have children of your own! Never again!

Amazing agency, guided fully though the process with nothing but professionalism: incredible training & support. The process has taken us 5 months, we are now awaiting referals for our first child to be placed with us :) highly recommend Compass if you are considering fostering..

I have felt totally supported throughout the whole process, I was never made to feel silly with any questions asked, Michelle was fantastic and we formed a great relationship. I feel that I have made the right choice with Compass and feel at this point that I could pick up the phone to anyone on the team and get the help and support I need. My only critisism would be that the three day course which was online, only a couple of us kept our cameras on making it hard to form relationships with the other members.