Family Placement Team Shetland Island Council

• Service overview: Fostering assessment and supervision/support, adoption assessment, support, family finding and post-adoption support; Kinship care assessments and informal support; therapeutic interventions such as lifestory work and theraplay for adopters and foster carers; support for birth families with post-adoption contact; post-adoption searches; training and support groups only in relation to fostered and adopted children/ parents and carers of fostered and adopted children who may have a diagnosis of FASD or suggested FASD non-specific to FASD; intereventions would be for fostered and adopted children with attachment difficulty, early life trauma and developmental difficulties such as lifestory work, theraplay and DDP approach
• Specialism:   
• Referral: Kinship care assessment referrals through local social work office, self-referral/registration of interest forms from applicants re fostering and adoption
• Website: http://www.shetland.gov.uk/childrens_resources/fostering.asp     
• Phone 01595 744000
• Address: Town Hall, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0HB

NHS Western Isles

• Service overview: General paediatrics, CAMHS, OT/Speech and language services (social communication with educational psychologist. Contract for family support services with Action For Children.)
• Specialism: No designated FASD services as such but children and young people can be referred to children's services via CAMHS.
• Referral: Yes
• Phone: 01851 704704
• Address : 37, South Beach Street, Isle of Lewis