Cedars Childcare is a new organisation based in the East Midlands. Our model, informally described as ‘pre-permanence’, is designed to work with children who should be in foster care or adoption, but for whom an arrangement is not available at the point of need.
Bridging the gap to permanence is a critical issue for children's social care across the UK, and our offer is unique.
We've invested our time and specialist expertise in designing a service that doesn’t hold onto children, but instead keeps them safe and prepares them for permanence through an age appropriate package of support.
Our packages of support are designed to run in parallel whilst a fostering or adoption arrangement is found, matched and introduced, maximising each child's chances of a successful move to their new home and their new family.
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Visit our new home in rural Leicestershire
4th and 18th September 2025
Building pathways from residential to permanence
Welcome to 'The Meadows'
Our first home, The Meadows is a beautiful family home set in rural Leicestershire. From Autumn 2025 our Registered Manager Sam Watts, will welcome our first children through its doors.
Sam is an experienced Fostering Social Worker having managed a Local Authority team. During her career Sam has developed a specialist focus on working with children who could be in families, but become stuck in residential care. Working with Cedars and our partners she has designed a pathway of care to move children safely and effectively from our services into a settled fostering or adoption arrangement.
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To support Sam and our care team, we have partnered with Placement Support, a local specialist Leicestershire-based team of clinicians. They work with us to ensure our team become ‘emotionally enriching practitioners’, transferring skills, offering supervision and providing accredited professional training.
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In addition we are working closely with Local Authority Fostering and Adoption teams and Independent Fostering and Adoption agencies. Together we're strengthening the bridge from The Meadows, to their foster carers and adoptive parents, through joint-recruitment, training and mentoring.
