Our Staff

Introduction

Acorn Fostering Services Ltd

Acorn Fostering Services is a well-established (year 2003 ) medium sized independent fostering agency based in Leicester .
We are Ofsted approved and registered
Our aim is to provide Local Authorities throughout Midlands and Northern Counties with safe, nurturing, stable family placements – we achieve this by working in partnership with them, with our carers and other professionals.
We provide high quality foster care placements for children and young people aged 0 to 18 years.
Our carers come from adverse range of ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds and we believe this is one of our strengths.

Everyone at Acorn Fostering Services is fully dedicated to supporting ‘looked after children’ and their foster carers.

Our Staff

Shadab Ahmad

Director and ADM

Director Shadab is a qualified social worker with over 32 years post qualifying experience. He has an MA in social work and has worked in Local Authorities and the NSPCC as a manager before setting up Acorn Fostering Services in 2004. His main area of interest is protecting vulnerable children and providing them with new opportunities. He has experience of working with children in need, looked after children and child protection cases.

Kshama Srivastava

HR Manager

Director Kshama has a background in Human Resources Management. Up until June 2014 she was working as a Human Resources professional in the NHS. In 2014, Kshama decided to leave her employment with the NHS to play an active role in Acorn Fostering Services. In her capacity as a Director, Kshama has assumed a lead responsibility for consultation with Staff, Foster carers and other stakeholders, Policy Review, and development along with bringing a vast and valuable contribution in the form of her knowledge and skills and abilities in the field of HR Management.

Priyanshu Srivastava

Registered Manager

Priyanshu is the fostering manager and panel advisor. He has substantial experience in the social work field spanning nearly two decades nationally and internationally. He has gained his experience in childcare frontline social work services.

Julie Bailey

Deputy Manager

Julie has 13 years’ experience as a qualified Social Worker with Acorn Fostering Services. Julie started her social work career with Acorn in 2009, firstly as a Supervising Social Worker, then as Acorn’s Recruitment Officer. In October 2015 Julie moved to the post of Placement Manager where she has been able to use her knowledge of our fostering households to inform the risk and assessment process when matching placements. In October 2016 Julie was promoted to Deputy Manager where she has the responsibility of overseeing the Recruitment Team as well as continuing with the Placement Manager.

Our Staff

The rest of Acorn’s team have between them a wealth of experience gained from a variety of different settings all of which contributes to a well-informed, supportive, and stable team. We are a medium sized team with a friendly, professional approach to our work; made up of people from different backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and religions. We value our staff and are committed to helping them explore their interests through training and personal development.