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Racism, extremism and the impact on workforce and families
Incidents of racism, intimidation, and hate crime are rising, impacting children’s social care professionals, foster carers, and the families they support. CoramBAAF is committed to listening, providing resources, and developing tools to help practitioners have essential conversations and challenge discrimination to ensure children feel safe and proud of their identity.
Read moreAdoption & Fostering journal #19 | Better identification of neurodevelopmental conditions in care-experienced children
Vicky Walker and Dr Dennis Golm are joined by Dr Matt Woolgar and Dr Tom Cawthorne to explore their latest research featured in Adoption & Fostering (Vol. 49, Issue 2). They discuss the mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges faced by care-experienced young people, the barriers to accessing effective support, and concerns around the overdiagnosis of attachment and trauma-related conditions.
Watch herePrivate Fostering Survey 2025: Findings and analysis
CoramBAAF's Private Fostering Survey 2025 highlights the ongoing lack of national data on privately fostered children and presents findings from 61 local authority responses across England and Wales, showing a significant increase in participation compared to 2024.
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New Child Health assessment forms | Supporting better outcomes for children in care
CoramBAAF’s newly updated Child Health assessment forms (2025) offer a more child-centred, collaborative approach to statutory health assessments, supporting improved long-term outcomes and aligning with forthcoming national quality standards.
Find out moreUpcoming training, events and conferences
Exploring Expertise: Keeping children in care connected to their cultures
11 November | 11.30am - 1pm | Zoom
In this session we will share key messages and highlight practice tips for practitioners, managers and organisational leaders. It will provide an overview of the SELF cultural framework. And it will provide an A-to-Z practice prompt to encourage practices that can be more intentional, more curious and more respectful.
Child health assessments
17 November | 9.45am - 3.30pm | Teams
This course explores the Medical Adviser’s role in adoption, focusing on conducting thorough child health assessments and preparing detailed adoption medical reports. It also covers advising agencies and panels, understanding parental health impacts, and managing complex situations to support informed care planning for children.
Working with relinquished babies and their families
18 November | 9.45am - 4pm | Zoom
This open course 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.
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Recruiting and retaining foster carers
Foster carer recruitment and retention are huge challenges that have attracted much research and reporting, without leading to widespread positive change. But some key best practice has been learned. What forms of recruitment have proved most useful, and what advertising encourages applications? How have some agencies successfully reached a range of diverse applicants? What do carers value most in a fostering service, making them more likely to stay – and what factors may push them to leave?
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Undertaking a Kinship Care Assessment: A guide to collecting and analysing information for Form K (England)
'Undertaking a kinship assessment' is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of kinship carers/connected people/family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.
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Adoption starter pack
Essential reading for newly qualified social workers
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Fostering starter pack - bumper bundle
Save when you purchase five of our best selling fostering titles in our new bumper bundle pack! Essential reading for newly qualified social workers.
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