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Updated Kinship Care statutory guidance
The government published updated Kinship care statutory guidance for local authorities: October 2026. At a briefing led by Dr Jahnine Davis, National Kinship Ambassador on 5 October, there was a strong emphasises on the need for a stronger whole-system, whole-family and child-centred approach. The updated Statutory Guidance is linked to Families First Partnership, Enduring Relationships Programme, Working together to safeguard children 2026 and Improving the kinship local offer and approach to kinship care.
Read moreNew information sharing duty comes into effect
The government has recently published statutory guidance for safeguarding organisations and their practitioners in relation to the new information sharing duty which was introduced through the Children Wellbeing and Schools Act. The new duty takes effect from 30 September 2026.
Find out moreSocial worker registration now open
Social Work registration window is now open. Practitioners must submit their renewal application and record two pieces of CPD, including one with peer reflection. Associate Trainer Cath Turton shares practical tips for completing yours.
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New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records
CoramBAAF and the Archives and Records Association (ARA) are today, Monday 9 March, announcing a partnership to make it easier for adopted and care-experienced people to find and access records relating to their adoption and time in care.
Find out moreUpcoming training, events and conferences
Private Fostering Awareness Day: Lunch and Learn
04 November 2026 | 12.30pm - 2.00pm | Online
This year’s lunchtime session for Private Fostering Awareness Day will focus on the complexities, challenges and solutions in private fostering social work practice. We will hear from local authority practitioners, the voices of private foster carers, parents and young people and consider some of the complexities that arise in private fostering arrangements. The event will also preview the results of this year’s CoramBAAF private fostering survey and the accompanying report will be published on the same day.
Fostering in Colour: Documentary Screening
03 November 2026 | 4.00pm - 6.30pm | Coram Campus
£15 plus VAT per ticket
Fostering in Colour brings together the honest, unfiltered experiences of foster carers from Black and global majority communities: what brought them to fostering, what kept them there, and what the system still gets wrong. Produced by the Black Foster Carers Alliance, the film opens up a conversation the sector has needed for a long time, about cultural matching, identity, and the children still waiting for the right home.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with foster carers, with time for audience questions.
Planning for children
11 November 2026 | 9.45am - 4.00pm | Online
This open course will enable participants to increase their understanding of the role of permanence in children's lives. By reflecting on best practice, it will help those attending to form permanence plans that are geared to improving the outcomes for children and young people, including their emotional, cognitive and physical development.
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Dennis, Harriett and Flynn live in different families
The Dennis Duckling series of picture books provides a range of opportunities to talk to looked after children about what is happening in their lives. In the first two books, Dennis and his little sister have to leave their parents and be looked after by a foster duck family. This book recaps the story, before following Dennis and his siblings as it is decided they need to live apart, in different duck families.
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Effective fostering panels
What are the roles and responsibilities of fostering panel members? What regulations and standards determine the functioning of a fostering panel? How can panels implement best practice to improve their work and make better placements? Effective fostering panels answers these and many other questions.
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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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