The Sensory Garden is open for bookings! We are offering our garden to our community to benefit those children and young people with a range of needs, whether this be therapeutic, sensory or a combination. The garden can be booked as a one off or bulk booking. You can book as a lone booking or as a group/oragnisation. The garden will be free of charge (subject to Beams discretion). We would appreciate a small donation to replensish facilities and refreshments which are provided, including toilet facilities. Beams do not supervise sessions ordinarily, although this can be considered on...

Flourish Award from Norfolk County Council We have been successful in obtaining a Flourish Award from NCC, this award is for everyone in Beams, it shows our hard work and how you all foster carers promote safe and healthy relationships for the children and young people we care for “We are pleased to inform you that you (Beams Foster Care) have been nominated for a Flourish Award and have been judged as Highly Commended in the Family & Friends award category. Our Young Person and Parent Carer Judging Panel were really impressed by the way in which your activity is supporting children...

Beams Foster Care and Family Services have introduced a Peer Mentoring Programme that is available to all foster carers, whether you are starting your journey at the application stage, if you are newly approved or if you feel you would benefit from some peer support from our experienced carers in a bespoke way. This will include face to face supervision, advice and support, as well as virtual and telephone support. This provides the opportunities for our carers to not only receive top quality supervision and guidance from their Supervising Social Worker, but also support from a fellow Foster...

We are extremely proud to have been featured in the Great Yarmouth Mercury newspaper due to our recent Ofsted result: A foster care agency in Gorleston has been rated outstanding by an education and children’s care watchdog. Beams Foster Care and Family Services, based on Magdalen Way, was inspected in February when it impressed Ofsted inspectors with its ability to “provide children with outstanding care”. Inspectors noted that “most children make exceptional progress from their starting points and thrive in their foster families,” and that “children...