We are a not for profit organisation
Offering foster care, respite care and escort services for children and young people in care

Our Carers
Anchor seeks to recruit and retain carers who are highly committed to providing a secure, warm and caring environment for children they look after. Anchor is committed to support & develop carers who are professional, sensitive and ambitious for the children they look after, by believing in them. Applications from single parent families are also welcome.

Placements
Anchor offers a range of placements including short term, bridging, respite, assessment, emergency and parent and child placements. Anchor specialise in planned long term and permanent placements for children and young people to support them and to enable them to achieve the most successful outcomes.

What Happens Next?
Once we have received and discussed your application; a member of staff will visit you in your home to carry out a home study. If you wish to go ahead we invite you to come on our Skills to Foster course, followed by an assessment of the family. The whole process should be completed within six months - sometimes less. Carers are then invited to the Anchor Panel for approval.

Equal opportunities
Anchor will recruit carers and members of staff without preference to ethnic origin, colour, sexuality, disabilities, language or cultural background. We anticipate being able to offer placements to children from a wide diversity of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Usually children will be placed with carers of the same ethnic origin, but we feel we should not, on that account alone, deprive a child of the experience of family life. Our criteria will always be "what is in the best interest of the individual child".

PROVIDING SAFETY, STABILITY AND HOPE