Working with Children

Social Services provide a wide range of support that seeks to improve the well-being of children, families and carers.

Playgroups/ Cylchoedd Meithrin are also referred to as ‘Sessional Care’. Each session is usually provided for up to four hours a day and children who attend are supported to learn through play and active involvement.

Home care is also known as domiciliary care. These services provide essential care and support for children and young people who live at home. This support is built around children and young people’s needs and routines to helps them remain in their home in a safe and supported way.

Foster care is a way of providing a secure family environment for children who are unable live with their own parents.

Day nurseries and crèches provide an essential service to working parents by offering childcare to children from birth.

Homebased childcare is where a child is cared for within a home environment. This could be their own home, such as a nanny, or the childminder’s home.

A ‘residential children’s home’ or ‘children’s home’ is a place where children that cannot live with their own family live.

Flying Start is a funded programme that supports families with children under the age of four in some of the most deprived areas in Wales.