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Company description
ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 3 January 1989; registered for 37 years; registered office reported in WATFORD, HERTFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 87900 · Other residential care activities n.e.c., with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 26 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Company number
- 02332388
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 1 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
20 June 2026Next statement due
4 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Northamptonshire Children's Trust - Provision Of Targeted Safeguarding Support Services for Children and Young People
North Northamptonshire Council · ocds-b5fd17-452cc08c-8b46-4f7b-9a8e-690f93019a8e
- Supplier named in award
- Action for Children Services Limited
- Award value
- £1,032,060
- Contract period
- 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2029
- Published
- 7 May 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-452cc08c-8b46-4f7b-9a8e-690f93019a8e-2025-05-07T10:55:29+01:00
DN747615/P-008795/C-0131612 - CFN Community Family Offer Inner West
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL · ocds-b5fd17-33be27f9-419e-414c-9a21-3b5d5571fb28
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,313,226
- Contract period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 3 February 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 98000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-33be27f9-419e-414c-9a21-3b5d5571fb28-2025-02-03T11:56:29Z
DN747613/P-008794/C-0131610 - CFN Community Family Offer NorthLocality
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL · ocds-b5fd17-d31ee029-ee6f-417b-a6c5-87404072c6d0
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,842,226
- Contract period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 3 February 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 98000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d31ee029-ee6f-417b-a6c5-87404072c6d0-2025-02-03T11:56:01Z
DN747616/P-008796/C-0131613 - CFN Community Family Offer Outer West
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL · ocds-b5fd17-b39688ea-e619-4a4c-b859-63210a46367c
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,065,226
- Contract period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 3 February 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 98000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b39688ea-e619-4a4c-b859-63210a46367c-2025-02-03T11:55:33Z
Call for Competition (hereafter referred to as an Expression of Interest (EOI)) For a: Northamptonshire Children's Trust Partner to deliver 2 x Childrens Homes for 2 children in Northampton (with potential to increase to 3 children)
North Northamptonshire Council · ocds-b5fd17-3f0f9fcf-13bb-4ad6-9357-c820699d29bd
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £4,500,000
- Contract period
- 5 August 2024 – 31 March 2030
- Published
- 25 September 2024
- Procedure
- Other - Expression of Interest
- Main CPV
- 85000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-3f0f9fcf-13bb-4ad6-9357-c820699d29bd-2024-09-25T14:13:17+01:00
Northamptonshire Children's Trust for the Provision of Homes for Children and Young People in our Care Independent Fostering Arrangements and Children's Homes
North Northamptonshire Council · ocds-b5fd17-d402198b-3002-49f7-ac69-29a923ce5b4c
- Supplier named in award
- Action for Children Services Limited
- Award value
- £252,000,000
- Contract period
- 5 August 2024 – 31 March 2031
- Published
- 25 September 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d402198b-3002-49f7-ac69-29a923ce5b4c-2024-09-25T14:22:25+01:00
Northamptonshire Children's Trust - Provision Of Daytime And Overnight Breaks/Respite For Children And Young People With Disabilities
North Northamptonshire Council · ocds-b5fd17-259176e3-82c3-4d52-a484-150fa49edd3f
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £13,431,000
- Contract period
- 1 November 2024 – 31 March 2030
- Published
- 21 May 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-259176e3-82c3-4d52-a484-150fa49edd3f-2024-05-21T12:20:32+01:00
IA2455 Children's Community Support Flexible Framework (Including Domiciliary)
Staffordshire County Council · ocds-b5fd17-ce78d8ef-73ae-4984-9cf3-38d60a77a34b
- Supplier named in award
- Action for Children Services Limited
- Award value
- £3,150,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2022 – 30 September 2025
- Published
- 19 April 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ce78d8ef-73ae-4984-9cf3-38d60a77a34b-2022-04-19T16:19:47+01:00
IA2432 Overnight Residential and Community Short Breaks North Staffordshire
Staffordshire County Council · ocds-b5fd17-cec16ee2-7fcc-41ea-b7fd-f8ce2d0aa648
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,753,500
- Contract period
- 1 April 2022 – 30 September 2025
- Published
- 23 February 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85311000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-cec16ee2-7fcc-41ea-b7fd-f8ce2d0aa648-2022-02-23T12:36:50Z
Provision of Residential and Community Short Breaks North Staffordshire
Staffordshire County Council · ocds-b5fd17-ff302ebe-5064-4c53-b161-50efa49212d0
- Supplier named in award
- Action for Children Services Limites
- Award value
- £1,002,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 7 January 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85310000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ff302ebe-5064-4c53-b161-50efa49212d0-2020-01-07T10:17:16Z
Community Based Short Breaks
Staffordshire County Council · ocds-b5fd17-d968a1ed-9fc7-4daf-99bd-84d6f8f51f84
- Supplier named in award
- Action for Children
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020
- Published
- 9 July 2019
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 85312120
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d968a1ed-9fc7-4daf-99bd-84d6f8f51f84-2019-07-09T10:47:13+01:00
Bright Residential for Children (BR4C)
Warwickshire County Council · ocds-b5fd17-1e1a0e16-1645-4dde-939d-dd836df2ab71
- Supplier named in award
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 8 December 2017
- Procedure
- Competitive dialogue (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85311300
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1e1a0e16-1645-4dde-939d-dd836df2ab71-2017-12-08T11:41:10Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
04 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Action For Children
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006 And Charities Act 2011
- Legal form
- Charitable Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 04764232
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
05 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
06 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
07 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
08 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
The Provision of Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) in Rutland
Rutland County Council · updated 23 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Promoting breast feeding across the city - Phase 2
Newcastle City Council · updated 2 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
For the Provision of an Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service for Children in Care
Derby City Council · updated 3 June 2025
- Tender value
- £6,746,050
- Awards
- 1
Northamptonshire Children's Trust - Provision Of Targeted Safeguarding Support Services for Children and Young People
North Northamptonshire Council · updated 9 May 2025
- Tender value
- £1,032,060
- Awards
- 1
Provision of Worcestershire Family Hubs
Worcestershire County Council · updated 20 March 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 6
Provision of Worcestershire Family Hubs
Worcestershire County Council · updated 20 March 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 6
DN747613/ P-008794 / C-013160 Children and Families Newcastle Community Family Offer - North Locality
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL · updated 3 February 2025
- Tender value
- £1,842,226
- Awards
- 1
DN747615/P-008795/C-013162 - CFN Community Family Offer Inner West Locality
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL · updated 3 February 2025
- Tender value
- £1,313,226
- Awards
- 1
DN747616/P-008796/C-013163 Children and Families Newcastle Community Family Offer - Outer West Locality
NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL · updated 3 February 2025
- Tender value
- £1,065,226
- Awards
- 1
Northamptonshire Children's Trust for the Provision of Homes for Children and Young People in our Care Independent Fostering Arrangements and Children's Homes
North Northamptonshire Council · updated 25 September 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 8
Call for Competition (hereafter referred to as an Expression of Interest (EOI)) For a: Northamptonshire Children's Trust Partner to deliver 2 x Childrens Homes for 2 children in Northampton (with potential to increase to 3 children)
Northamptonshire Children's Trust · updated 25 September 2024
- Tender value
- £4,500,000
- Awards
- 1
Northamptonshire Children's Trust - Provision Of Daytime And Overnight Breaks/Respite For Children And Young People With Disabilities
Northamptonshire Children's Trust · updated 21 May 2024
- Tender value
- £16,700,660
- Awards
- 1
Action for Children - Newcastle Family Support Service
North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board · updated 18 April 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Early Childhood Family Service
Norfolk County Council · updated 11 July 2023
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Targeted Short Breaks Service
BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY · updated 15 January 2026
- Tender value
- £5,192,000
- Awards
- 4
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
09 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
10 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Child day-care activities
11 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
14 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
12 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: NCH FOR CHILDREN SERVICES LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: NCH CHILDREN'S SERVICES LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
13 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.