Compass Fostering Omdömen 

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.

Lots of in depth training, how through the process is proves they need the best people for the job, always answer any questions and anything I'm unsure of , great support from all the organisation

Tried going through the process with Compass and i felt that everything went swimmingly. It may feel as if it's an invasive procedure but we knew that it's all for the safety of the children. Unfortunately, we couldn't progress further due to personal reasons but the Compass team were extremely supportive throughout. I'd definitely recommend Compass to anyone looking to start their fostering journey!

Very organized and great communication at all times.

When you apply to become a foster parent with Compass they are very helpful and can't do enough to help you. The further you go into the assessment things Start to go wrong.
I am writing this through my own experience but reading through the reviews I am not surprised other people have had the same outcome as myself and my husband.
We made it perfectly clear when we first applied that our son ( 12 years old )was homeschooled but we have a large support network around us, so meetings regarding fostering wouldn't be an issue.
We had meetings with our assessing social worker,attended the 3 day skills to foster course, basically we jumped through hoops to accommodate everything they needed.
One evening we had a zoom call to inform us that they wouldn't be taking our application further because they feel our son is on the autism spectrum ( this hasn't ever been mentioned by the school, before we decided to home school). Or our G.P.
We asked to speak to someone from Compass and was told someone would call us. They did call and said they would investigate, we didn't hear back from them until 6 weeks later when out if the blue we had a call asking how we were feeling about our panel date the following week.
There is so much more to write but I am able to supply anyone wanting to see paperwork and how we were treated.
We have also put a complaint
In to Compass regarding our treatment. we had the conclusion today saying that due to still feeling our son is on the spectrum we will not be able to foster. How can they decide this without even meeting him or a diagnosis from a professional is staggering.
We have had all reports back from everyone who we have had dealings with from compass, each one said we would make great foster parents. I am willing to show these to anyone to show that Compass fostering are unprofessional and discriminate against people that have additional needs, even though my son doesn't. Since posting this review and receiving a reply from Crompass I am wondering how they are going to contact me as I haven't left any contact details!!!

Very smooth transfer from Scotland to England. The assessment was very good and thorough and we felt supported throughout.

I applied to be a foster parent.way back in march .been very difficult with having to communicate with a abusive ex partner for references..and now since August it seems as though the agency is stonewalling me..No replies to my phone calls and e.mails...Seems very unprofessional..My last e.mail to them was to ask do I need to apply to another agency but still haven't heard!! I don't think I will push this further. Seems to have crushed my self confidence in becoming a foster parent ..this is the 2nd agency I have applied for.

From meeting Lisa to meeting the panel, was not as scary as I thought. Lisa made us feel relaxed even when talking about childhood experiences, that both myself and my husband don’t talk about. Lisa made us feel like friends instead of acquaintances, when meeting the panel. Each member was just as easy and relaxed, they was all very easy to to talk to.

We have been supported throughout the journey, it’s been tough at times but there is always someone there

We have been fostering with Compass for almost 2 years now and we are really happy with the support they have given us. Fostering isn't easy but our Social Worker is amazing and we may not have lasted without her!

Our grandson is being looked after (I use the term very loosely) by a foster carer through compass. In the 2 and half years he has been there everything has got worse for him. He developed anorexia his school work attendance punctuality and grades have serverly dropped. He is in the process of being moved as his social worker didn't realise the extent of the lack of care that he was being given. He was expected to make his own way home from school every day cook all his own meals do all his own washing and ironing got shouted at constantly. Was left on his own overnight to name a few things. Once he is removed we will be making an official complaint so that no other vulnerable child is placed there

Despite reassurances from Compass that people only get turned down if there is something ‘very severely wrong’
We have been turned down but cannot be told what has been said against us.
Impossible to live life forward without knowing. It would have been better never to have applied. Be very careful everyone. Being turned down without reason is traumatic, emotional and very unfair. Especially as we were only trying to help.

Discrimination from the ic2 social worker who didnt like me having pets or having a fracture to my leg. Infact i had to remove my puppy from the house as she had allergies and this was pointed out at time of application that i had a lot of pets and a boarding cattery. Very poor service from an ignorant person who didnt do their research b4 hand.

Fantastic experience so far, they are so helpful and approachable and made our Fostering Journey smooth one.