Undertaking a connected person/family and friends assessment

This book is designed to be used with CoramBAAF’s Form C (assessing connected people/family and friends carers).

If your agency is now using CoramBAAF’s new Form K (Kinship Care Assessment) England (2025), launched in February 2025, you the new edition of this book, Undertaking a Kinship Assessment is now available.

This guide helps social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children. It is to be used by assessing social workers to complete this assessment using the CoramBAAF Form C for England.

The guide focuses primarily on Section C of Form C which requires information about the applicant – historical and current – and how it is relevant to their suitability to be foster carers or special guardians for known children. This includes descriptive information about the applicant, information about their relationships and networks, and consideration of parenting capacity. Each chapter considers a different aspect of the assessment, and presents a list of trigger questions that can facilitate further discussion as well as reminders of which details should be included in the report.

The guide also includes explanations of the context of assessment, particular issues to be considered with regard to family and friends carers, safeguarding, and the legal orders that could apply in these cases. Helpful examples of family trees and ecomaps are also included.

This guide will be invaluable for all those completing connected person / family and friends assessments in England, and of particular use to those who are new to the task, or concerned about covering all necessary aspects.

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