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Navigating online life with children and young people
Dr Vicki Walker shares her plans for working towards keeping children and young people safe online. She suggests that we need to move away from restriction and towards moderation, to empower children and young people to become resilient.
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Episode 18 | Adoption by foster carers: Part one and two
Discover firsthand insights on adoption by foster carers in our exclusive podcast interviews featuring Isla, a foster carer turned adopter, and author Elaine Dibben. Joined by Jo Francis, CoramBAAF’s Publications Manager, they delve into both the personal and practical aspects of this journey.
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Getting started in permanence….sign up to our breakfast briefing sessions
James Bury, Head of Policy, Research and Development at CoramBAAF shares our new series of workshops to introduce fostering, adoption and kinship practice to social workers and other professionals.
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Exploring Expertise: Children and Families Across Borders
14 May | 11.30am - 1pm | Zoom
In this participatory session, we will consider the challenges of managing child protection cases with an international element as well as collaborating with foreign authorities, and navigating cultural, legal, and practice challenges.
Facilitating parent and child placements
22 May | 10am - 4pm | Zoom
This course will consider the foster carer's key role in providing parent and child arrangements and ensuring successful outcomes for children.
Introducing the Outbound Permanence Service
This webinar was designed for local authorities that may be new to the Outbound service and want to find out what we offer and hear some initial guidance on how to approach overseas placements.
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The adopter's handbook
Thinking about, or in the process of, adopting a child? Read this book to prepare for the experience of adoption, find the right resources to help you and feel more in control through the ups and downs along the way.
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Assessing children and families for adoption support in England
This practice guide aims to enhance the quality of post-order adoption support assessments, and thereby improve outcomes and well-being for adopted children and families. It will help social work practitioners to carry out assessments that are informed by the best available evidence and practice wisdom.
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Adoption by foster carers
Adoption by foster carers is an area of practice that has attracted controversy and divergent views prevail. This Good Practice Guide explores some of the issues behind the contradictory views. It challenges practitioners to reflect on the established “practice wisdom” and adopt a more open-minded and child-centred approach.
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Unlawful placements in kinship care
In many situations, the reality of the placement becoming unlawful speaks more to the limitations of the regulations themselves, than whether the placement is the best place for a child to live. In an effort to help practitioners navigate these challenges, we have published the following a practice note.
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