The Anchor Team recommend the following resources.
Websites
Beacon House
Freely available resources so that knowledge about the healing of trauma and adversity is in the hands of those who need it.
CAMHS
Created for young people, carers, and professionals to pool together lots of helpful resources from across the internet that are available to help support your mental health and well-being.
CATCH
An online community of information and support for adopters, special guardians, foster carers, and the professionals
Childnet
Helping make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people
Me and My FASD 
A website is for young people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. written with advice from adults and young people in the UK who have FASD and a whole team of experts and families.
PAC-UK
A range of resources to support families, schools and local authorities in meeting the educational needs of adopted and special guardianship children.
Partnership Projects
An award-winning provider of Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) Training for Professionals, and NVR Coaching for Parents / Caregivers
Parenting Special Children
Providing specialist support to Berkshire Families who have children and young people with special needs. Includes support groups for adopters and special guardians.
UK Trauma Council
Resources to support individuals and organisations working to nurture and protect children and young people following trauma.
Occupational Therapy Parent Toolbox
Resources for families of children receiving occupational therapy, and tools to help your child develop and thrive.
NHS GGC – Life Skills Parents/Carers Zone
The Parent/Carers Zone contains lots of useful resources and links. These resources will give you the tools to teach your child new life skills like toileting, dressing and organising their school bag.
Oxford Health – OT Activities and Resources
Lots of useful resources to enable your child to thrive.
Kelly Mahler – Find out more about Interoception for Self-Regulation
Interoception is the ability to sense and understand what is happening inside your body, such as your heart rate, breathing, and other internal sensations. Practicing interoception fosters a deeper sense of self-awareness and emotional regulation, contributing to a healthier and more connected family dynamic. Kelly offers lots of resources and training to support parents and practitioners.
Books
Books to share with children
  • Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae - on individuals all having strengths.
  • Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian - A story about a boy who thrives with a new carer after abuse and neglect.
  • The Invisible String by Patrice Karst - on separation and love.
  • Good Days Bad Days (Anholt Family Favourites) Laurence Anholt and Catherine Anholt - on the ups and downs of life.
  • Not Again, Little Owl by Vivien Norris - on moving placement.
  • Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival - on anxiety management.
  • The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself by Ali Redford, Plum Stickleberry, Kara Simpson (Illustrations) - a book about children who put barriers up in relationships.
  • How Hattie Hated Kindness: A Story for Children Locked in Rage of Hate by Margot Sunderland, Nicky Armstrong 
  • Owl Babies by Martin Waddell - on abandonment, secure attachment.
  • The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas - a book about feelings.
  • I Wish You More by Amy Krouse Rosenthal - a book of love and encouragement.
  • The Tracy Beaker Books by Jacqueline Wilson - a book about a girl’s experience of being in care (may be enjoyed by older children).
  • Are You Feeling Cold, Yuki? A Story to Help Build Interoception and Internal Body Awareness for Children with Special Needs by Kay Al-Ghani
  • Me and my PDA - Gloria Dura Vila and Tamar Levi
  • Finding my voice - Aoife Dooley
  • The Teenage Girl's Guide to Living Well with ADHD: Improve your Self-Esteem, Self-Care and Self Knowledge by Sonia Ali
Books for parents, carers and professionals
  • Creating loving attachments: Parenting with PACE to nurture confidence and security in the troubled child. Kim Golding.
  • Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective strategies to care for children. Dan Hughes.
  • Attachment, trauma and resilience: Therapeutic caring for children. Kate and Brian Cairns.
  • Parenting a child with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Dan Hughes.
  • Everyday parenting with security and love. Kim Golding
  • The Whole-Brain Child. Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson.
  • New Families, Old Scripts - A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families. Caroline Archer and Christine Gordon.
  • Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
  • Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children - Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting. Kim S. Golding.
  • The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions. Sarah Naish.
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson.
  • Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries; 2nd Edition: A self-help guide for parents. Cathy Creswell and Lucy Willetts.
  • When Adults Hurt Children: Helping Children Heal from Abuse. Marge Eaton Heegaard.
  • Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Children and Families. Daniel A. Hughes, Kim S. Golding and Julie Hudson.
  • Dealing with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Mary Mather.
  • A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma: Creative Techniques and Activities (Therapeutic Treasures Collection). Dr Karen Treisman.
  • Talking About Adoption: Marjorie Morrison
  • Improving sensory processing in traumatised children by Sarah Lloyd
  • The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz
  • Interoception and Regulation: Teaching Skills of Body Awareness and Supporting Connection with Others by Emma Goodall and Charlotte Brownlow
  • Sensory Integration and the child – understanding hidden sensory challenges by A. Jean Ayers
  • Living sensationally – understanding your senses by Winnie Dunn
  • Balanced and barefoot by Angela J. Hanscom