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Keeping Children Safe Online
Keeping Children Safe Online
05 Feb 2020

February 11th is Safer Internet Day and this year the theme is ‘Together for a better internet’. When you start thinking about it, the internet has become an ever-present tool within our homes....

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Coping with back to school anxiety
Coping with back to school anxiety
23 Dec 2019

The start of a new school year or term can sometimes be a stressful or anxious time for children and young people. This can be heightened if the new term also means a new school. Some anxiety is...

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Affinity Fostering 5th Annual Conference!
Affinity Fostering 5th Annual Conference!
10 Dec 2019

Our 5th annual Foster Carer’s conference at Marriott Waltham Abbey was held last week. Our latest conference saw our Foster Carers enjoy 2 days of inspiring training, and a great evening Christmas...

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Hug Buttons
Hug Buttons
25 Nov 2019

You may have seen on social media recently that ‘hug buttons’ have been helping children with their anxieties and separation from parents and carers.  http://bit.ly/2XPHMVt   This idea has...

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Another successful Foster Carers Conference!
Another successful Foster Carers Conference!
30 Nov 2018

Our extemely successful conference has been concluded at Marriott Waltham Abbey, which was signed off today with an incredibly powerful and personal training session from Scott from Section 31...

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Foster Carers Conference 2018 is underway!
30 Nov 2018

This year's Foster Carer's conference kicks off today! We're so excited to bring together our Foster Carers and Affinity staff for two days of training, development and lots of fun! It's always such...

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Clay pigeon shooting with our men in foster care
Clay pigeon shooting with our men in foster care
04 Oct 2018

At Affinity, we realise the important role our male foster carers play in the lives of the young people in their care, which is why we organised our men in foster care morning this morning. We spent...

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Passport to Parliament: Empowering our young people
Passport to Parliament: Empowering our young people
14 Aug 2018

Today, six of our young people took part in Become Charity's, Passport to Parliament, an outreach project empowering looked after children and care leavers to be agents of change - in their own...

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Our young children: agents of change in the care system
Our young children: agents of change in the care system
14 Aug 2018

This week, a group of our young people were joined by Become, a charity dedicated to supporting people in care and care leavers. Become run a programme called Passport to Parliament, an outreach...

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Affinity Foster Carers Christmas Conference
Affinity Foster Carers Christmas Conference
14 Aug 2018

This time last week, Affinity wrapped up our best two-day Conference to date, this year hosted in Kent. Our foster carers and staff received brilliant training on diverse issues such as Mental Health,...

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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!