Registration number: 06128293

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Contents

Company Information	1
Strategic Report	2
Directors' Report	3
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities	4
Independent Auditor's Report	5 to 7
Consolidated Profit and Loss Account	8
Consolidated Balance Sheet	9
Balance Sheet	10
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity	11
Statement of Changes in Equity	12
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows	13
Notes to the Financial Statements	14 to 27

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Company Information

Directors

S J Constantine P J Battle R J Compton-Burnett C I Lockett C H O St John D J Tomlinson

Company secretary

R J Compton-Burnett

Registered office

Unit 2 Greenbox Westonhall Road Stoke Prior Worcestershire B60 4AL

Solicitors

HCR Legal LLP 5 Deansway Worcester WR1 2JG

Bankers

Barclays Bank PLC 1 Churchill Place Canary Wharf London E14 5HP

Auditors

Hazlewoods LLP Windsor House Bayshill Road Cheltenham GL50 3AT

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Principal activity

The principal activity of the group is the provision of foster care services for children and young people. The principal activity of the company is that of a holding company.

Fair review of the business

The results for the year show turnover of £30.3million (2024 - £33.3 million) and profit after tax of £0.8 million (2024 - £2.6 million).

The group has well established operations in four regions - the north, the midlands, the south west and the south east - and these operations support carers that cover most parts of England. The ongoing growth and development of the group's specialist therapeutic service, which focuses on more complex children and young people, has been a key feature of the last year. The Board sees this service as a key part of the group’s strategy over the next five years. Overall, the group traded reasonably in a competitive environment.

After making due and careful enquiries and in particular after reviewing its forecasts for at least the next 12 months, the Board believes it is appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis.

As part of the management accounts, the directors use Key Performance Indicators ('KPIs') to assist in the understanding of the performance and development of the group. The KPIs used by the group include carer numbers, children numbers, staff turnover and Ofsted ratings.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The Board is very conscious that the nature of the services provided exposes the business to specific risks in addition to normal business and financial risks. The Board is confident that the processes within the businesses and the skill and experience of the staff and carers appropriately address the various risks involved. The principal risk is reputational, and this is managed primarily through:

• Thorough assessment of all new carers

• Ongoing supervision, training and support of carers

• Recruitment of high quality staff

• Ongoing training and supervision of staff

• Appropriate management and reporting structures with prompt action taken to address any specific issues arising

• Maintenance of appropriate quality assurance programmes and of insurance policies.

Approved by the Board on 13 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

P J Battle
Director

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

The directors present their report and the for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Directors of the company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

S J Constantine

P J Battle

A Burton (resigned 31 May 2024)

R J Compton-Burnett

C I Lockett

C H O St John

D J Tomlinson

Financial instruments

Price risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and cash flow risk

At 31 March 2025, the group had £1.5 million (2024 - £2.2 million) of cash and £0.4 million (2024 - £nil) of bank borrowings. The group generated cash during the year at the operating level and has continued to do so since the year end. The group's finances are managed centrally and while some cash is sometimes kept in short term deposits, enough cash is maintained to cover normal expected working capital requirements.

All repayments of capital and interest in respect of the bank borrowings have been repaid as scheduled during the year.

Future developments

The Board is cautiously optimistic about the future. While demand for our services is consistently strong, foster carer recruitment across the sector remains challenging. We continue to invest in the quality of our service provision overall and in particular in our efforts to increase carer recruitment and in the further enhancement of the skills of our staff and carers.

Disclosure of information to the auditor

Each director has taken the steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information. The directors confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditor is unaware.

Reappointment of auditors

Hazlewoods LLP have expressed their willingness to continue in office

Approved by the Board on 13 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

P J Battle
Director

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, Directors' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

•	select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
•	make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
•	state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
•	prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the group's and the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the group and the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the group and the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Capstone Foster Care Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Capstone Foster Care Limited (the 'parent company') and its subsidiaries (the 'group') for the year ended 31 March 2025, which comprise the Consolidated Profit and Loss Account, Consolidated Balance Sheet, Balance Sheet, Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, Statement of Changes in Equity, Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

•	give a true and fair view of the state of the group's and the parent company's affairs as at 31 March 2025 and of the group's profit for the year then ended;
•	have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
•	have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Capstone Foster Care Limited

Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

•	the information given in the Strategic Report and Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

•	the Strategic Report and Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

•	adequate accounting records have not been kept by the parent company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
•	the parent company financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
•	certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
•	we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page 4, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the group’s and the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the group or the parent company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Extent to which the audit was capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We considered the nature of the group’s industry and its control environment and reviewed the group’s documentation of their policies and procedures relating to fraud and compliance with laws and regulations. We also enquired of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the group operates in and identified the key laws and regulations that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, including the UK Companies Act and tax legislation, and, those that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the group’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty.

We discussed among the audit engagement team regarding the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and how and where fraud might occur in the financial statements.

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Capstone Foster Care Limited

In common with all audits under ISAs (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override of controls. In addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments; assessed whether the judgements made in accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias; and evaluated the business rationale of any significant transactions that are unusual or outside the normal course of business.

In addition to the above, our procedures to respond to the risks identified included the following:

•	reviewing financial statement disclosures by testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with provisions of relevant laws and regulations described as having a direct effect on the financial statements;

•	performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatements due to fraud;

•	enquiring of management concerning actual and potential litigation and claims and instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations; and

•	reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

Our audit procedures were designed to respond to risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery, misrepresentations or through collusion. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures performed and the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we are to become aware of it.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Martin Howard (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Hazlewoods LLP, Statutory Auditor

Windsor House
Bayshill Road
Cheltenham
GL50 3AT

14 November 2025

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Consolidated Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

	Note	2025  £	2024  £
Turnover	3	30,267,451	33,294,307
Cost of sales		(15,811,162)	(17,200,420)
Gross profit		14,456,289	16,093,887
Administrative expenses		(12,742,175)	(12,102,306)
Operating profit	4	1,714,114	3,991,581
Other interest receivable and similar income	5	91,654	14,010
Interest payable and similar charges	6	(4,648)	(9,714)
Profit before tax		1,801,120	3,995,877
Taxation	10	(953,653)	(1,374,818)
Profit for the financial year		847,467	2,621,059

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The group has no other comprehensive income for the year.

Capstone Foster Care Limited

(Registration number: 06128293)
Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

	Note	2025  £	2024  £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets	11	8,396,342	10,340,857
Tangible assets	12	593,217	163,414
		8,989,559	10,504,271
Current assets
Debtors	14	1,546,932	1,603,598
Cash at bank and in hand		1,546,923	2,196,669
		3,093,855	3,800,267
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year (excluding bank borrowings)	15	(2,098,760)	(2,769,267)
Net current assets (excluding bank borrowings)		995,095	1,031,000
Bank borrowings falling due within one year	15	(33,208)	-
Net current assets		961,887	1,031,000
Total assets less current liabilities		9,951,446	11,535,271
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year	15	(359,757)	-
Net assets		9,591,689	11,535,271
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital	17	50,472	50,472
Share premium reserve		1,293,032	1,293,032
Capital redemption reserve		431	431
Profit and loss account		8,247,754	10,191,336
Equity attributable to owners of the company		9,591,689	11,535,271
Total equity		9,591,689	11,535,271

Approved and authorised by the Board on 13 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
 

P J Battle
Director

Capstone Foster Care Limited

(Registration number: 06128293)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

	Note	2025  £	2024  £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	12	74,629	79,678
Investments	13	28,521,908	28,521,708
		28,596,537	28,601,386
Current assets
Debtors: Amounts falling due within one year	14	3,578,978	5,366,157
Debtors: Amounts falling due after more than one year	14	2,959,642	3,369,532
Cash at bank and in hand		75,039	125,166
		6,613,659	8,860,855
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year (excluding bank borrowings)	15	(8,697,322)	(10,050,088)
Net current liabilities (excluding bank borrowings)		(2,083,663)	(1,189,233)
Bank borrowings falling due within one year	15	-	-
Net current liabilities		(2,083,663)	(1,189,233)
Total assets less current liabilities		26,512,874	27,412,153
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year	15	(1,240,827)	(1,633,553)
Net assets		25,272,047	25,778,600
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital	17	50,472	50,472
Share premium reserve		1,293,032	1,293,032
Capital redemption reserve		431	431
Profit and loss account		23,928,112	24,434,665
Total equity		25,272,047	25,778,600

The company made a profit after tax for the financial year of £2,284,496 (2024 - profit of £44,380).

Approved and authorised by the Board on 13 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
 

P J Battle
Director

Capstone Foster Care Limited

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

	Share capital £	Share premium £	Capital redemption reserve £	Profit and loss account £	Total £
At 1 April 2024	50,472	1,293,032	431	10,191,336	11,535,271
Profit for the year	-	-	-	847,467	847,467
Distributions	-	-	-	(2,791,049)	(2,791,049)
At 31 March 2025	50,472	1,293,032	431	8,247,754	9,591,689