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CoramBAAF publishes its responses to the Independent Children's Social Care Review
CoramBAAF has made three submissions to the Review, responding to both the call for advice and evidence with Black Minority Ethnic Perspectives Advisory Committee (BMEPAC) making recommendations on matters concerning black and minority ethnic children and families.
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Medical Reports Adoption and Fostering: Joint statement published by Royal College GPs and British Medical Association
CoramBAAF would like to alert members to the statement released by the Royal College GPs and British Medical Association.
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Somali perspectives on the shortage of Somali substitute carers
Camelia Choudhury’s article in the latest issue of Adoption & Fostering Journal has been distinguished for special attention by SAGE and made freely available to all readers until the end of September.
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Managing Contact
6 May 2021 | ONLINE
This open course on planning and sustaining good contact will look at contact for children with plans for permanency and adoption. There will be opportunities to consider relevant research and support needs. It will include looking at best practice for letterbox arrangements.
Culturally Competent Social Worker
20 May 2021 | ONLINE
This open course will explore how families’ culture, faith and understanding of harm impacts on their parenting capacity and consider how this should inform assessments, child protection plans and strategies. The workshop will include how the personal values of practitioners could impact on professional judgements and decision-making.
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Devising and Updating Risk Assessment and Management Plans in Fostering
Assessing and managing risk is an essential part of ensuring that children in foster care are kept as safe as possible, and is central to the statutory framework and to Ofsted inspection. This practical guide, in association with CoramBAAF’s Form R, is designed to help social workers and foster carers to complete and update individual safeguarding plans for fostered children in England.
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Writing a later life letter
A later life letter is one written by a social worker to a child who is being adopted, to help the child make sense of their past, but it is intended to be read later in the child’s life - a difficult and delicate task even for experienced workers. This Good Practice Guide focuses on the practicalities of writing a later life letter.
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The Child's Legal Journey through Care
This innovative guide demystifies the law by explaining its application to children’s rights, children’s possible routes through care, and the legal stages of Children Act proceedings, Written in a clear and simple manner, it sets out what practitioners should do to achieve the best outcomes for children while fulfilling what the law requires.
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Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: Learning from case reviews 2007–2019
This good practice guide is based on a UK-wide study of 52 case reviews concerning 98 children who had died or experienced serious harm while living with foster carers, adopters or special guardians. The study spans a 12-year period and is the first to focus exclusively on reviews of cases of children in alternative family care. Consequently, it shines a spotlight on those issues that are particular to these children – the selection and assessment of their carers; the support both children and carers receive; and the supervision and management of such arrangements.
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