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Neurodiversity Celebration Week: promoting acceptance and understanding
Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences.
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What is the Outbound Permanence Service?
From 1 April 2024 the Outbound Permanence Service will become a membership benefit. Sandra Latter explains how you can use the service as part of your membership.
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Assessing children and families for adoption support in England
Just published! This practice guide aims to enhance the quality of post-order adoption support assessments, and thereby improve outcomes and well-being for adopted children and families. It will help social work practitioners to carry out assessments that are informed by the best available evidence and practice wisdom.
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Learning from Research: The adultification of Black girls in state care
28 March | 2pm - 3.45pm | Zoom
Black girls in state care often face adultification, both from their parents before entering care and from professionals in the social care sector.
Introducing PACE principles in practice
19 April | 10am - 4pm | Zoom
The aim of PACE is to allow the child to establish a positive and reciprocal relationship with their parents or carers and to experience relationships as 'safe'.
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Safer Internet Day: Safeguarding in the online world
Safer internet day is a global initiative to promote safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. CoramBAAF Adoption Consultant, Jane Poore, and, Dr. Vicki Walker, discussed the complexities of safeguarding in the digital world.
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All BooksAssessing children and families for adoption support in England
This practice guide aims to enhance the quality of post-order adoption support assessments, and thereby improve outcomes and well-being for adopted children and families. It will help social work practitioners to carry out assessments that are informed by the best available evidence and practice wisdom.
Read moreAdoption by foster carers
Adoption by foster carers is an area of practice that has attracted controversy and divergent views prevail. This Good Practice Guide explores some of the issues behind the contradictory views. It challenges practitioners to reflect on the established “practice wisdom” and adopt a more open-minded and child-centred approach.
Read moreUnlawful placements in kinship care
In many situations, the reality of the placement becoming unlawful speaks more to the limitations of the regulations themselves, than whether the placement is the best place for a child to live. In an effort to help practitioners navigate these challenges, we have published the following a practice note.
Read moreDealing with disruption
This Good Practice Guide considers various aspects of disruption in both fostering and adoption placements and is an important tool for those involved in making permanent placements for children.
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