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The Annex Project (TAP) offers therapeutic support for families, children and young people and bespoke emotional training for schools and social cares and other organisation - TAP into what you need. At The Annex Project (TAP) we support children, young people and families who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties

We work with the systems around the family to help them understand the challenges and help to integrate change

TAP delivers training to foster carers and adoptive parents, which changes the way they think and react to children and young people who have experienced attachment and trauma difficulties in their earlier years and present with challenging behaviours

TAP work within schools delivering therapy, bespoke training and support

TAP have an amazing training package for social workers and front line staff. The feedback from previous trainings is outstanding and has a huge impact on safeguarding and supporting vulnerable families

TAP hold therapeutic groups for parents and their extended families to help hold on to the heart of the family

TAP deliver Emotional First Aid training to schools, youth workers and key staff who work directly with children and young people

You or your organisation can TAP into any support you need for understanding and working with some of our vulnerable and emotional children young people who present with many difficult behaviours including, anger, aggression, fear, anxiety, bed-wetting, soiling, school refusing, those who have experienced bereavement, divorce and loss, children and young people who are underachieving at school or being bullied or bullied

Children, young people and families are the heart of The Annex Project (TAP) and we support them by helping those around them to understand and manage some of the challenges they present on a daily basis. The Annex Project is a central part of building a better future through therapy and training for children, young people and families
Contact us today and TAP into a better future for your family or organisation and help our children and young people TAP into a life where they can better achieve their educational goals, they can make and keep friends and become respected and whole within their families

08/09/2025

Congratulations, Josh MacAlister MP, on your new role as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families.

Minister, we hope you will meet with us so we can share the devastating impact of cuts to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund ( ).

As shown in our surveys, recently featured in the leading social work publication Community Care, the cuts made under your predecessor’s watch are harming children and families. Your party made a manifesto pledge to support adoptive and kinship families. These cuts represent a failure to meet that pledge. They are a betrayal of those who open their hearts and homes to some of the most vulnerable children in England. More importantly, they are a betrayal of those children themselves.

We hope:

•⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠That you will advocate for our families, standing with us rather than the Treasury.
•⁠ ⁠That you will be guided by the best available evidence.
•⁠ ⁠⁠That you will engage with us in constructive partnership, listening to the sector and to those of us with lived experience. We aim to be a critical friend.

You now have an opportunity to make a profoundly positive difference to our children. Please don’t be swayed by the rhetoric of your predecessor. The cuts to this fund have rendered it unfit for purpose and risk wasting £50 million of taxpayers’ money each year.

We, and the movement we represent, are determined not to allow our children to be failed. We will not give up on them. We will not turn our backs. Please, don’t turn your back on us.

Adoption UK Kinship CVAA UK

Now that IS news!!!
07/09/2025

Now that IS news!!!

Janet Daby has been moved to the backbenches…

Really well written summary and acknowledges many of the fears we have for our families and as providersThank you Action...
05/09/2025

Really well written summary and acknowledges many of the fears we have for our families and as providers

Thank you Action against ASGSF changes for fighting this huge battle on all our behalves. It is really appreciated

Let’s wait to see what the package is but this is really encouraging!
04/09/2025

Let’s wait to see what the package is but this is really encouraging!

After months of campaigning by Adoption UK with others in the sector alongside thousands of families, we warmly welcome confirmation by the Children’s Minister that the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) will continue for 2026/27. We await clarity on the details. We have fought hard for public consultation about reforms to the Fund and are pleased to see the Minister commit to this in today’s statement. It is crucial that reforms are in the best interests of adopted children, that the impact of this year’s cuts are carefully considered, that consultation is thorough and reforms not rushed through. https://ow.ly/teJi50WR97N

06/08/2025

Therapy Dog in the making 💕💕💕

Please read - things must change!
10/07/2025

Please read - things must change!

Parliamentary inquiry on children’s social care published today finds too little recognition of the impact of the early trauma and separation experienced by adopted children and the support they need; and supports Adoption UK’s calls for the ASGSF to be made permanent and for a review of the impact of reduced funding levels, alongside improvements to support for children in education. Read our statement here https://ow.ly/Ijna50WnE3M

Introducing Priscilla our newest member of The Annex Therapy team. She will be spending a few months chilling and growin...
10/07/2025

Introducing Priscilla our newest member of The Annex Therapy team. She will be spending a few months chilling and growing before training begins. Around to meet at The Annex from the end of July and will be open to cuddles and adoration 💕💕

Everyone needs to read this and somehow get the word out there to the policy makers!
01/07/2025

Everyone needs to read this and somehow get the word out there to the policy makers!

Far, Far Beyond the Adoption Order: Lessons from Lives Impacted by Trauma is a landmark contribution to understanding the lived experiences of adoptive families caring for children and young adults affected by early-life trauma.

This is so true! Let’s give unskilled staff the most vulnerable of children - that’ll work - not!!!!
18/06/2025

This is so true! Let’s give unskilled staff the most vulnerable of children - that’ll work - not!!!!

I'm getting increasingly concerned by the "dabbling" in children's mental health that is being encouraged by the Labour government! Not only did they strip back the ASGSF to unworkable amounts (I'm now constantly thinking do we refuse that meeting or do it for free & risk bankruptcy?)😪 Trying to remain ethical without the funding to do so is bad enough. But they've also stated "mental health provision in schools", which basically means giving a staff member a brief course to dabble. We're getting enquiries to train people to work in this way. It won't be encouraged by eQuiPT. It's downright dangerous in a bid to look like the government are doing good for children. If they actually want to benefit mental health I ask this: 1.Fund actually qualified therapists in schools. 2. Reinstate the ASGSF funding to workable levels so that we can do the job we love doing and properly. 3. Add money to the pot so that Kinship carers can access support too. At the moment the government are creating a very dangerous environment. Families please question what's being offered. Is the "therapist" qualified? Are they registered? Therapists are trained to post graduate level! Please always ask. Somone who doesn't know what they're doing can actively make things worse. The Provider's List and Ofsted was created for a very good reason. Accountability for Provider's. Action against ASGSF changes

04/06/2025

PLEASE do everything you can to get this changed - it's no good be upset about the changes if you don't do what you can ...
24/05/2025

PLEASE do everything you can to get this changed - it's no good be upset about the changes if you don't do what you can to make changes happen - be a voice that will change the future of our families

As the chancellor prepares to set government budgets for future years, who are likely winners and losers?

23/05/2025

Respect and appreciation Munira Wilson

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