Bromsgrove-based Foster Care Associates, which cares for troubled children, has announced a further expansion.

FCA, which already has 20 offices in the town, has taken 3,815 sq ft of space at 3 Saxon Mews on Saxon Business Park in Stoke Prior as a new administration facility.

And the move has been put together with the help of Redditch commercial property agents John Truslove.

Twenty staff will be based at Saxon Mews - the group employs 1,000 in total.

FCA, part of the Core Assets Group, is the UK's leading independent fostering agency, with 80 offices nationwide.

Working in partnership with local authorities and health trusts, it seeks to provide "quality care in a family setting" for more than 2,500 foster children who are looked after by the agency's 2,100 foster families.

An FCA spokesman said: "We specialise in foster care nationwide.

"We provide high quality placements for a wide range of distressed children and young people. Our approach to fostering places the child's needs and local support for our foster carers firmly at the centre of what we do.

"Our aim is to ensure that the strategies we use are effective in improving the outcomes of those placed with us."

John Truslove said: "It is good to see such a caring organisation as Foster Care Associates expanding its Midlands operation.

"We were very pleased to be able to help with identifying a base for their new administrative facility."

No 3 Saxon Mews, a modern two-storey office complex, has been taken on a five year lease.

For more information on John Truslove, view the website here: www.johntruslove.com