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Anchor Foster Care

Providing Safety, Stability & Hope

Anchor Foster Care is a family run, independent, not-for-profit organisation proactively working to provide the right kind of care and support to children and young people in our care. We provide a fostering service that develops and encourages both new and experienced foster carers to achieve good outcomes in a safe, stable and nurturing environment.

In partnership with our committed foster carers, we work tirelessly to deliver a service that provides safety, stability and hope through robust support for our committed foster carers and their families by providing regular training, 24/7 responsive and practical help, access to educational and therapeutic services and a small family feel environment.

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Why Anchor?

Anchor Foster Care is a Not-For-Profit agency where all money is put back into helping to provide children and young people in foster care with safety, stability & hope because we believe that a secure base is a critical aspect of enabling children and young people to realise their potential.

Our relentless pursuit of this vision and passion through our committed foster carers and their families, our hardworking staff and anyone else who is part of the "Anchor Family" has helped us to remain a child/young person-centered fostering service with a family feel.

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Events Calendar

Sep 2020

Anchor events 14 Sep 2020

Therapeutic Support Group

Please note we have a 9.45 am arrival for a 10 am...

Carers Stories ...

“ The thing we love about Anchor is you can call a director if you want to because all the staff are... ”

Anchor Foster Care testimonial from Helen & Colin (MBE Foster Carers)

Helen & Colin (MBE Foster Carers)

“ We feel like one part of a great big family. ”

Anchor Foster Care testimonial from Valerie & Adam (Foster Carers, Kent)

Valerie & Adam (Foster Carers, Kent)

“ Anchor has provided us with invaluable support during these troubled times. ”

Anchor Foster Care testimonial from Sophie & Paul (Foster Carers, Midlands)

Sophie & Paul (Foster Carers, Midlands)

“ I hope our union with Anchor will continue for years to come. ”

Anchor Foster Care testimonial from Pamela & George (Foster Carers, Kent)

Pamela & George (Foster Carers, Kent)

“ I would recommend fostering with Anchor with no hesitation at all. ”

Anchor Foster Care testimonial from Alvita (Foster Carer)

Alvita (Foster Carer)

Latest News Stories

Supporting Foster Care Fortnight 2020 Through COVID-19

Anchor Foster Care has been supporting Foster Care Fortnight 2020 despite the current COVID-19 pandemic. A much-loved highlight within the two...

Celebrating Foster Care Fortnight™ 2020

Anchor Foster Care is joining the Fostering Network to celebrate Foster Care Fortnight, 11 - 24 May 2020. We've invited our staff and foster...

Anchor Managing Director to Join Safeguarding Live Chat

Do you have a Twitter account? If so, our Managing Director Farayi Chinyemba will be 'live' on the fast-moving platform today....

Be a Stay at Home Therapeutic Foster Carer with Anchor Foster Care

Our foster carers are trained in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention For Families (TCIF) and are better prepared and fully supported in handling...

Case Study: Why We've Made Our Panel Meetings a Virtual Reality.

Anchor Foster Care Maintaining a caring support service in a remote environment. Anchor Foster Care is an Ofsted registered ‘Good’...

Remote Working Made Easy

If you’re working from home for the first time you may be struggling with your new ‘office’ arrangement. Or perhaps you are...

Types of Placements

We are looking for foster families for children with a wide range of different needs.

Here are just some of the fostering ‘placements‘ we work with:

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Long Term
Short Term
Sole Child
Sibling Groups
Emergency
Parent & Child
Unaccompanied Minors
Respite
Specialist
Therapeutic
Disability

Where are Foster Families Needed?

We Cover 5 Regions in the UK and need new carers in all of these areas:

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