Positive & Supportive

Right from the Start
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Family Values

When Synergy Fostering started to look after children in year 2000, we had just one foster family to take care of. Even now many years and many children later, our ethos is that each family should feel like they are that one family. Each child we care for only experiences one Synergy foster family with their individual set of needs and issues to address. Our challenge is to make that one relationship an outstanding one for each and every child and young person.

While we know we do serious work, we do not take ourselves too seriously. We look for ways to have fun and enjoy the experience of looking after children in foster care and also in our foster carers’ birth families and our staff families as well. Afterall, family life is all the richer for sharing it together.

Working Together to Help Young People

Working together gives young people the best possible service. We work together with you to provide the best environment for both you and the young people in our care.

Addressing Children's Difficulties

We all know children in care will have difficult issues to face. Not least they are away from their birth families. We are with you in finding ways to help young people feel safe and secure with you.

Solving Problems Sensitively

Fostering, like all families, has is problems. We help you solve those problems in innovative and positive ways that lead to stabilty and strength in your relationships.

Supporting Carers and their Development

Support for foster families helps them to feel safe and secure in their relationships with the young people which adds to the overall environment of trust that develops.

Our Story

Over more than 16 years we have developed our service to children in care. We have learned how to match children with Foster Families so that they can provide the best care for the children. We support you to develop your confidence and skills so that you can give young people the safe and stable environment that helps them. This graphic shows the results of a survey of 261 children in care about they want from foster families.

  • Safety and Security 67% 67%
  • Support and Help 61% 61%
  • Foster Family’s Love 54% 54%

Your Team of Supporters

Your biggest supporters are the three people who started this agency 18 years ago. Running a Fostering agency is pointless unless we help young people in our care  find their way in life and we cannot achieve that without foster families, staff and the supporters of our organisation who also care about that.

Gurmeet Sodhi

Gurmeet Sodhi

Recruitment and Training Manager

“Finding and developing potential and approved foster carers means that we can offer more young people better care as a result. The highlight for me is when a carer offers extra support to a young person; something they learned during their fostering career.”
Shobha Harris

Shobha Harris

Registered Manager

“Helping vulnerable children to grow up into valuable adults in our community is really rewarding. Guiding and coaching foster parents who really care about children like I do so they can provide that care is even better!”
John Barnes

John Barnes

Commercial Manager

“Using the skills I learned in the private sector to the benefit of young people in care makes it more important somehow. What we do matters and it will continue to be valuable to the young people for many years after they leave us.”

Passionate, Friendly, Dedicated

Fostering Agency In London

Chidi Igwe

Supervising Social Worker

Proud Father of two teenage sons, Chidi has been working with children and families for five years helping them with family dynamics and approaches in managing the issues and challenges of fostering.

Sunny Barnes

Office Manager

Sunny has been helping Synergy for nine years now taking care of finances and the office organisation. Sunny also checks our Health & Safety  standards in foster homes for us.

Melissa Gunduz

      Supervising Social Worker

Previously working directly with children and families, Melissa now works therapeutically with fostering families and their looked after children to enable them to flourish in safe and secure environments.

Demi-Renee Monty

Admin. Support

There are lots of activities that need administrative support from booking training courses arranging events and organising the office.  Demi has a varied list of things to help everyone with so they can do their work.

Anna Mallon

Supervising Social Worker

Anna has a hands on experience working with young people with special needs in residential settings. Her experience helps her to develop innovative strategies for the difficulties young people face..

Shaima Begum

Panel Administrator 

With so much going on, Shaima has a busy job organising, planning and supporting our team including the foster carers. Shaima also takes care of all the statutory checks, training records and panel administration.

Yvonne Nwaiga

       Recruitment Social Worker

Working previously on adult assessments and Kinship care assessments, Yvonne uses her skills to search out the skills in assessing applicants that make them suitable to foster.

 

Laiba Naveed

Placement Officer

Laiba has previous experience and qualifications in Health and Social Care. She loves the idea of working to help children and young people by matching them with our available foster carers.

Foster Panel Team

Training & Development

Your development as a foster family is the single most important objective of the agency. We know that your development is directly linked to the standard of care that children and young people receive in your care. Find out more about how we develop and support our Foster Families at Synergy

Call Us for a Chat

Probably the best way to find out if you will enjoy working with us is to call us and see how we are! We can arrange to visit you or invite you to a free workshop where you can find out what Synergy Fostering is really like .

We’d love to hear from you. We like people!