If your child is being adopted (and you don't agree)
| CoramBAAF
This Advice Note provides information for those whose child is being adopted, in a situation where they do not agree with the actions being taken.
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Preparing to Adopt in Scotland - Applicant's workbook
| Shaila Shah
A well-established and popular training programme that has been used extensively throughout the UK for many years. The Applicant's Workbook contains articles on a number of topics covered in the training programme as well as narratives from adopters and writing by adopted children and young people that offer an insight into their feelings about adoption.
Undertaking checks and references in fostering and adoption assessments
| Paul Adams
The assessment of foster carers and adopters is amongst the most important aspects of family placement work. Undertaking checks and references is key to these assessments, and a core task for social workers. This Good Practice Guide details the range of checks routinely undertaken across the UK.
Preparing to Adopt in Scotland - Trainer's Guide
| Elaine Dibben, Eileen Fursland and Nicky Probert
A well-established and popular training programme that has been used extensively throughout the UK for many years. The Trainer's Guide is designed to lead the trainer step by step in their delivery of the course including the presentation, exercises, discussions and group work.
Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with toileting issues
| Kathryn Fenton with Ellie Johnson
This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children. This title provides authoritative, clinical guidance for carers and adopters on why toileting issues can occur and what can be done about it.
Matching a child in an early permanence placement: the importance of identity
| John Simmonds
The matching of a child’s ethnicity, culture, religion and language with those of their prospective adopters has been a longstanding and challenging set of policy and practice questions. This discussion paper addresses this challenge by focusing on 16 key messages, inviting the reader to reflect on the importance of the development of a child’s identity over time and then into adulthood.
Child care law England
| Alexandra Conroy Harris and Deborah Cullen
This quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions for the care of children in England. Designed to provide a basic framework, it presents a summary of the main statutes, regulations and court rules, with sections on all the main strands of law relating to parents, children and local authority responsibilities.
Supporting the mental health of looked after and adopted children
| Karen Aldred and Helen Rodwell
This Good Practice Guide for social workers translates the theoretical concepts and research about children’s mental health into straightforward language and practical advice. Taking a holistic and attachment-focused approach, it demonstrates how to understand children’s background and current events, rather than focusing on diagnostic criteria and labels.
Practice Note 69. Assessing and supporting transgender foster carers and adopters
| Claire Brown, Charlotte Andrew and Paul Adams
This Practice Note has been written to assist practitioners who are assessing transgender applicants in the UK who wish to foster or adopt, and to help fostering services and adoption agencies to work in a way that encourages and values applications from this group of people.
The adopter's handbook on education
| Eileen Fursland
This is a must-read book for any parent seeking to support their adopted child through school. It contains information advice and ideas on: choosing and starting a new school; working with a child's school and teachers; financial and other support available for previously looked after children; and rights, special needs support, exclusion and alternative provision.