National News

18 Dec 2024
The Essex Care Sector Awards 2024: The Prospers held its 7th Annual Awards on 4th December 2024. The awards celebrate care in Essex shown through innovation, achievement and contribution to service. It is open to all providers who deliver a care service to Adults in Essex County Council's Local Authority Area. This year's event was hosted by actor and filmmaker Amanda Waring, with a welcoming speech by Cllr. John Spence CBE, Cabinet Member for Children's Services, Adult Social Care, Public Health and Integration. Read more...
16 Dec 2024
On Wednesday 15th January, we will be among the voluntary adoption agencies taking part in Big Adoption Day 2025 - a day designed to highlight the importance of finding loving adoptive families while sharing the benefits of adopting through a voluntary adoption agency. Read more...
29 Nov 2024
We were delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Ashford Sings! Community Choir to record the song 'Welcome Home.' Now available online (wherever you stream your music), it sends an important message about the urgent need for more foster carers to provide children with safe and secure homes. The Ashford Sings! choir is run by Diagrama Foundation foster carers Nic and Chris Kimmance. They were so concerned about the lack of foster carers throughout the country that Chris put pen to paper to write the lyrics and music for a Christmas single. Read more...
21 Oct 2024
There’s no such thing as a ‘normal’ family, say 65% of Brits – as National Adoption Week highlights adoption journeys of all kinds Read more...
07 Oct 2024
Last week, we won three awards at the Bromley Adult Care Awards! The prestigious awards, which recognise the best in the care sector across the Borough of Bromley were announced at an event held at the Bromley Civic Centre on Wednesday 2 October. Read more...
12 Sep 2024
Paul Jacobs GM, who served as an Infantryman with the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was just 20 years old when he lost his sight in an explosion in Afghanistan which killed two of his friends. As well as losing his sight, he was left with a traumatic brain injury and heavy scarring to his body. Paul spent much of his young life in care and attributes his foster carer Marion for giving him the love, family, stability and home he needed to turn his life around. Read more...
06 Aug 2024
Diagrama Fostering now has a brand new website! Alongside our new website for Diagrama Adoption, we decided to carry out this project to better help us find homes for vulnerable children that need them the most. We wanted to provide a better user experience for people making enquiries to our website, and needed better functionality to do this. With a new look and feel, we hope this new site will improve our visibility online, encourage higher numbers of visitors and result in more people contacting us. Read more...
06 Aug 2024
We are delighted to announce that we now have a brand new website for Diagrama Adoption. This project was commissioned to help us find homes for vulnerable children that need them the most, offering an improved user experience for enquiries to our website. With a new look and feel, and better functionality, we hope this new site will improve our visibility online, encourage higher numbers of visitors and result in more people contacting our organisation. Read more...
01 Aug 2024
Diagrama Foundation is delighted to announce the publication of 'A Chance for Change’  - which is the 5th book in our Monument Fellowship Series. It explores the important topic of what a fairer justice system could mean for children and young people through a collection of thought-provoking essays and creative reflections. Read more...
20 May 2024
Diagrama Community Services are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded the contract by West Sussex County Council to deliver Day Opportunities at our locations in West Sussex. This includes our 100 acre Duckyls Farm and other locations in Sussex. From 1st July, these sites will provide a choice of opportunities and activities to adults with learning disabilities, supporting individuals to develop skills that promote independence, healthy living and access to employment. Read more...

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