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CoramBAAF is the UK’s leading membership organisation for professionals working across adoption, fostering and kinship care.
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Birth mothers’ experiences of having children in kinship care
In October, Pause published a paper highlighting the experiences of birth mothers who have children placed in kinship care. It draws on their learnings from working with over 1,800 birth mothers over the past decade, as well as in-depth conversations with a group of four women who have children placed in kinship care.
Read morePublic Law Working Group adoption sub-group report
CoramBAAF welcomes the publication of the Public Law Working Group (PLWG) adoption sub-group report. ‘Recommendations for best practice in respect of adoption' contains a wealth of recommendations across five chapters aimed at supporting the continued modernisation and adaptation of the adoption process.
Read moreDisability in the care system: the struggle for young people to access diagnosis and support
Growing up in care with multiple disabilities, Susan faced significant challenges, including a lack of proper support and understanding from the care system. Despite these obstacles, a late autism diagnosis at 21 enabled her to pursue higher education and advocate for systemic changes to better support disabled children in care.
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Relinquished babies
26 November | 10am - 1pm | Zoom
We will look at the relevant statutory frameworks and recent case law, the challenges of working with relinquished babies and their parents, some of the complexities of the background histories of relinquished babies, the importance of counselling for relinquishing parents, care planning and the support needs of relinquished children and their adopters.
Access to children’s social care files
4 December | 9.45am - 4pm | Zoom
All young people who are either care experienced or had social workers involved in their childhood, have the right to access the information that is written about them and saved on their files. In this open course, we examine these legal rights and the various legal frameworks that govern the processes around accessing care files.
Making good use of the ASGSF to support kinship families
5 December | 9.45am - 4pm | Zoom
This course is aimed at practitioners working with kinship families to equip you with the knowledge and skills to confidently assess a kinship family’s support needs, match to a therapeutic intervention, and understand the scope, eligibility and requirements of the ASGSF in order to make applications to the fund.
Starter packs for newly qualified social workers
To help newly qualified social workers, or those that want to refresh their knowledge, we have created a fostering and adoption starter pack. You will receive our top selling titles at a discounted price.
Fostering starter pack
Get 'Fostering now', 'Making good assessments', and 'The child's legal journey through care' for £35 (usually £49.90).
Find out moreAdoption starter pack
Get 'Adoption now', 'Making good assessments', and 'The child's legal journey through care' for £40 (usually £54.90).
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