[3] In 2012 it stated that its aim is to secure its position as the leading psychoanalytic innovator and provider of mental health treatment to children and families in Europe.

[5] The Centre conducts research in collaboration with the Yale University Child Study Center and the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.

[6] The Centre's historic links with Yale University have been renewed through the recently established Anna Freud Centre/Yale Child Study Center Bridge Programme.

Research can be based on collaboration with other bodies (for example a study into adoption working with Coram and Great Ormond Street Hospital[10]).

[11] In September 2009 a collaborative project involving the Anna Freud Centre, Kids Company and UCL was launched to study what happens to the brains of children who have suffered early trauma.