NON-RESIDENTIAL
- Anna Freud Centre — Anna Freud Centre London based multi-disciplinary psychiatric / psychological assessment service. See this page for the range of assessments which includes the Early Years Parenting Unit which specialises in parents with personality difficulties / disorders whose children are deemed in need or on the edge of care.
- Avocet Kinship Family Assessment – Social Work Assessments — offers A Kinship / Family Assessment by Independent Social Workers
- Carter Brown Associates – Expert witnesses — Nationwide experts for expert witnesses.
- Foundations Independent Contact & Assessment Services | Chatham | Medway | Canterbury | Kent Parenting Capacity | Risk Assessments — Aims to support children and their families who are separated either from family breakdown, local authority interventions or through adoption – mainly providing contact services & mediation.
- Independent Family Service Lincolnshire — Association of professional social workers providing assessments of children and families.
- ISW Directory — NAGALRO Directory of Independent Social Workers NAGALRO provides a searchable database of Independent Social Workers, Guardians etc who can carry out assessments in children cases.
- Living Spring: Social Work Assessments | livingspring — Living Springs Stourbridge based charitable organisation offering a range of services & support & family assessments.
- Lucy Faithfull Foundation | Child protection charity | Child Sexual Abuse — Lucy Faithfull Foundation The Lucy Faithfull Foundation specialises in sexual abuse cases providing both assessment and therapeutic services.
- The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities — Association of Therapeutic Communities UK support organisation for professionals working in therapeutic communities. Useful member directory
RESIDENTIAL
- NB there are at least two more which were in the process of setting up just ahead of the COVID 19 crisis – also trying to get updated information about Jamma Umoja and a couple more in London / South-East
- Amber Family – Southport & Lancashire residential assessment centres
- Break Charity — Break / Magpie Norfolk residential family assessment service.
- Care2Share — Care 2 Share Basic contact details only for this Walthamstow based residential family assessment service.
- Chariteens – East London based residential centre
- Chrysalis : Bridlington family assessment centre
- Coombe Wood mother and baby mental health inpatient unit — Provides treatment and support for pregnant women in their last trimester and postnatal women.
- Dudley Lodge Family Assessment Services — Family assessments and intervention programmes with parents to ascertain their ability to care safely for a child. Residential, community based & PAMs family assessments.
- Fairways residential assessment centre Southampton
- Granary Care Harrow residential assessment centre
- Majestic Family Services – Kent — Specialises in residential assessments of parenting skills
- New Spring Blackpool residential family assessment
- Orchard House — Orchard House Somerset based residential family assessment unit.
- Phoenix Family Care : residential assessment centre in Darwen, Lancs
- Progressive Care — Progressive Care Sheffield & Wigan based family assessment service – residential & non-residential.
- Ray Wyre Associates >> The Home of RWA — Ray Wyre Associates RWA is an independent child protection organisation that provides independent experts who undertake risk assessments of adult (male and female) and adolescent perpetrators of sexual abuse, including where child abuse is alleged and not proven.
- Serendipity – Residential Family Assessment Centre — Serendipity Devon based residential family assessment service. Serendipity is no longer operational at this time due to an on-going dispute with the South West Ofsted team. Due to the serious issues identified, Serendipity have an investigation against Ofsted pending with the Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman.
- St Mary’s Family Assessment & Support — St Mary’s Family Centre Family Assessment & Treatment Centre based in Norwood (non-residential)
- St Michael’s Fellowship – Home — St Michael’s Fellowship South London residential assessment provider, which also provides Sure Start services.
- Symbol – specialist assessment of parents with learning disabilities and other particularly vulnerable parents
- Willis Palmer Social Work Recruitment UK | Social Work Services | Social Care Vacancies — WillisPalmer Colchester based assessment resource offering independent social work assessments established by Mark Willis & Andre Palmer, two qualified and experienced social workers. The organsatio as access to a network of qualified social workers, counsellors and therapists
