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We've published our Law Commission: Kinship Care consultation response
In our response we back proposals to introduce a new, bespoke Kinship Care Order alongside recommendations for support for kinship families.
Our responseNew Adoption & Fostering Journal
To mark 100 years since the Adoption Act 1926, we’ve launched a special edition of the Adoption & Fostering Journal: Reflecting on 100 years of Adoption in England and Wales: 1926–2026. You can access all the articles as part of your membership using the below link.
Access the journalPrivate Fostering 2026 report
Since national data collection on private fostering ended in 2015, there has been limited insight into the scale and nature of private fostering arrangements. To help address this gap, our latest Private Fostering Awareness Day Report brings together findings from 55 local authorities, based on 48 usable survey responses.
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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 working together to make it easier for care experienced and adopted people to find and access records relating to their time in care and adoption. The new resource will provide an accessible way to find where records may be located. Find out more about the project and sign up for future updates here.
Find out moreUpcoming training, events and conferences
Fostering Conference 2027 | We are the solution: Anti-racist practice as a safeguarding priority
08 February | 9:30am - 4:30pm | London
This conference is set to become a key event in the calendar of social work practitioners working in Local Authorities with foster families. It is a conference that brings together practice and ideas that are current, relevant to you, and which matter. This is our second fostering conference and the chosen theme of Anti-Racist practice as a safeguarding priority is in direct response to the experiences of children in care, foster carers and the workforce.
Convention adoption: placing children in English care proceedings with overseas kinship carers
19 November 2026 | 9.45am - 12pm | Coram Campus
This two hour training is for professionals within member local authorities, both social workers and lawyers, who are involved in the placement of children in UK care proceedings with kinship carers overseas on a Convention Adoption Order
Adult Health Assessments
23 November 2026 | 9.45am - 3.30pm | Online
This workshop is designed to support medical advisers in their role. It is particularly suitable for new or inexperienced medical advisers.
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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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