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How to reduce the impact of bullying
How to reduce the impact of bullying
16 Nov 2022

If a child or young person experiences physical, verbal, or cyber bullying, it is often an incredibly lonely experience, and it can feel very isolating. Whether someone in your home has experienced...

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Anti-Bullying Week 2022
Anti-Bullying Week 2022
14 Nov 2022

Anti-Bullying Week 2022 runs from 14th to 18th of November; and this year the theme is Reach Out. The Anti-Bullying Alliance continue to encourage education settings to take part in the Odd Sock...

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Affinity Fostering, Helping with the Cost of Living Crisis
Affinity Fostering, Helping with the Cost of Living Crisis
11 Nov 2022

The cost of living, despite some Government help, is going to make winter difficult for many people, and we understand that our foster carers may also need some additional financial support at this...

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Celebrating Diwali!
Celebrating Diwali!
24 Oct 2022

What is Diwali? Diwali – sometimes also spelt Divali - is a religious festival whose name originates from the Sanskrit word dipavali, and is known as the ‘Festival of Lights’. Taking place...

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Supporting Black History Month 2022
Supporting Black History Month 2022
06 Oct 2022

October is Black History Month, and at Affinity Fostering, we are supporting it by recognising and celebrating racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds of children and adults.  We are running an...

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Rated Ofsted Outstanding Again!
Rated Ofsted Outstanding Again!
06 Oct 2022

August 2022 saw our latest full Ofsted inspection; Andy Robins (Director) said “The team at Affinity are absolutely elated to have had all the work we do to support foster carers and our young...

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Pot of Gold Summer 2022
Pot of Gold Summer 2022
08 Sep 2022

The summer of 2022 saw another fantastic response to Affinity's Pot of Gold!   Every year we offer £100 to all children in the Affinity Family households to help them have new experiences, visit...

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Affinity Fostering are founding donors to the Forever Surrey Scholarship
Affinity Fostering are founding donors to the Forever Surrey Scholarship
07 Sep 2022

It’s a tragic statistic that only 11.8% of young people in care enter higher education compared with 43.1% of all young people. Despite being cared for and nurtured by dedicated foster carers,...

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We are recruiting for a Fostering Recruitment Officer
We are recruiting for a Fostering Recruitment Officer
06 Jul 2022

Job Summary: The focus of the role is to generate interest in fostering across the local community to help generate enquiries and will require coordination, engagement and recruitment of Foster...

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How to support your own children when you become a foster carer.
How to support your own children when you become a foster carer.
24 Jun 2022

Choosing to welcome a vulnerable child or young person into your home is always going to be a family decision. As with every choice that will potentially make changes to the day-to-day operations of...

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Why Affinity are the best agency for new foster carers

Affinity Fostering were rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in 2022. In-fact we’ve been rated Outstanding in every inspection since we opened our agency!