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CoramBAAF responds to the Case for Change report from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care
Following on from previous responses to the Independent Care Review, CoramBAAF has submitted its response to the Case for Change.
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Unexpected enlightenment at a Wednesday lunch time
CoramBAAF Training Manager, Hedwig Verhagen reflects on our first wellbeing session for professionals which explored the three phases of recovery from trauma. The session aimed to provide a space for our members to reflect on their personal wellbeing and create a greater sense of calm.
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Call for professionals and carers to share their experiences of supporting separated migrant children
CoramBAAF are proud to be partners in an UK wide study examining how separated children experience the Covid-19 crisis and how it has impacted on their connectivity to networks and services. We're reaching out to colleagues in migrant care to discuss the findings of this study.
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Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people
8 Sep 2021 | ONLINE
This open course will provide tools to improve practice in assessing and planning for separated and unaccompanied children and young people and concentrates on developing practice around the statutory assessment and planning processes, including core assessment, needs assessment, pathway planning and care planning for looked after children and young people.
Train the Trainers: Delivering Preparation Courses for Early Permanence Carers
9 Sep 2021 | ONLINE
This Train the Trainers one day course will give participants access to the Materials of the Coram Early Permanence two-day training programme for EP Carers and will introduce them to the materials and the issues being covered so they can deliver the various exercises in a way that engages the participants and ensures their maximum participation
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The adopter’s handbook on education (Scotland)
This is a must-read book for any parent seeking to support their adopted child through school in Scotland. It contains information advice and ideas on: choosing and starting a new school; working with a child's school and teachers; financial and other support available for previously looked after children; and rights, special needs support, exclusion and alternative provision.
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Child care law Wales
This quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions for the care of children in Wales. Designed to provide a basic framework, it presents a summary of the main statutes, regulations and court rules, with sections on all the main strands of law relating to parents, children and local authority responsibilities.
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Things foster carers need to know: FULL SERIES
In today’s world, foster carers may have to respond to a wide range of sensitive and difficult issues that their fostered children or young people may encounter. As a carer, you may find these subjects hard to discuss, have little personal experience of them, or not know how best to approach them. This series of informative and accessible pamphlets will enable you to broach sensitive topics, respond to your child’s difficulties, recognise if your child is exposed to problematic situations, and safeguard and support them.
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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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