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Thinking of Fostering?
Fostering is a life-changing decision.
Our guides explain what’s involved, the types of fostering available, and the support you will receive.
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Strong support structure
Carers receive guidance, training, and 24/7 support.
Local focus
placing children in homes near their community and family.
Carer & Social Worker Led
We understand fostering from personal experience.
Why Choose
Futures Group?
We provide reassurance, guidance, and a strong support network for every foster carer and child.
Established & Experienced
Supporting children and carers since 1999.
Family-based, not corporate
Our decisions are shaped by experience, not profit.
Our Story
Futures Group has been supporting children and young people since 1999. We are a family run group led by foster carers and social workers with a clear focus on providing stable and nurturing homes for children who need them most.
From the very beginning our approach has been shaped by lived experience. We understand the realities of fostering the challenges it can bring and the importance of feeling supported listened to and valued. That understanding sits at the heart of everything we do.
Today Futures Group brings together three trusted fostering services Futures for Children Fostering Options and Foster Care Solutions. While each brand has its own identity they all share the same values placing local children in local homes supporting foster carers every step of the way and building long term stability for children and young people.
We work closely with carers children and professionals to ensure that no one feels alone and that every placement is supported with care consistency and expertise.
Welcome to Futures group
Welcome to Futures Group. We are a friendly, experienced fostering group made up of Futures for Children and Fostering Options, working together to provide safe, stable and nurturing family homes for children and young people.
We know that fostering is built on relationships. Across our three independent registered offices, we take time to get to know our foster carer families, children and young people, offering support that feels personal, approachable and consistent.
Futures for Children has two independent registered offices, in Harlow, Essex and Chester-le-Street, County Durham. with the Group's Head Office is in Maidstone, Kent. Fostering Options has one independent registered office in Milton Keynes. Together, our three registered offices enable us to provide local knowledge, warm support and a strong sense of connection across the areas we serve, with the Group’s Head Office in Maidstone, Kent.
Whether you are thinking about fostering, already part of our fostering family, or working alongside us as a professional, we want you to feel welcomed, listened to and supported. Children remain at the heart of everything we do, and we are proud to work with foster carers who help them feel safe, valued and able to thrive.
oUR STORY
Futures Group has been supporting children and young people since 1999. We are a family run group led by foster carers and social workers with a clear focus on providing stable and nurturing homes for children who need them most.
From the very beginning, our approach has been shaped by lived experience. We understand the realities of fostering the challenges it can bring and the importance of feeling supported listened to and valued. That understanding sits at the heart of everything we do.
Today Futures Group brings together three trusted fostering services; Futures for Children Kent, Fostering Options and Futures for children Durham. While each brand has its own identity, they all share the same values; placing local children in local homes, supporting foster carers every step of the way, and building long‑term stability for children and young people.
We work closely with carers, children and professionals to ensure that no one feels alone and that every fostering arrangement is supported with care, consistency and expertise.
"We want children to achieve their potential, no matter where they come from or what challenges they meet along the way."
Nick Barnsby, Director
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Fostering Options
(Milton Keynes/Midlands)
Fostering Options was established back in 2002, the office in Milton Keynes was opened in 2003, where it remains to date. Fostering Options recognised that due to market changes it would be beneficial to be under a larger organisation and sold the agency to Futures for Children in 2009.
Office Address: Threshing House, Hayfield Business Park, Berry Lane, Milton Keynes, MK17 8HS
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FUTURES fOR cHILDREN
(Durham/NE England)
Futures for Children, formally known as Foster Care Solutions, was established in 1998 in South Shields. The office is based in Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Futures For Children recognised that due to market changes there would be many benefits to being part of a larger organisation and therefore in September 2010 they sold the company to Futures for Children.
Office Address: 8 Lumley Court, Drum Industrial Estate, Chester le Street, County Durham DH2 1AN
Futures for Children
(Kent/Essex/E London)
Futures for Children is part of the Futures Group of independent fostering agencies and was established in 1999, by Nick Barnsby (who remains our Director) and Harry Bettice. Between them, Nick and Harry had experience of working as Social Workers (both in Local Authority and Independent Fostering Agencies,) Fostering children within their own families, growing up in the care system and being parents and now grandparents.
Office Address: Unit 6 Feltimores Park, Chalk Lane, Moor Hall Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 0PF
Futures For Shared Lives
Futures For Shared Lives is an independent service providing an alternative to residential care, because good quality care should not stop when a young person reaches 18 years.
FFSL specialises in supporting people with additional needs, physical and learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs to live in the community as part of a supportive friends and family household.
Some of our younger adults have been in foster care, others have been living with their birth families and some aim to live independently but require more time to learn the skills to achieve this. Our service provides homes for people aged 18+.
Office Address: The Masters House, College Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 6YQ
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