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COMING SPRING 2025! Undertaking a Kinship Assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of kinship carers/connected people/family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This companion guide draws on information in the associated Good Practice Guide, 'Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: Learning from safeguarding reviews 2007–2022'. This guide details the results of a study of safeguarding reviews involving 87 children, who were sexually abused by members of the household or family friends while living with foster or kinship carers, special guardians or adopters.
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This is the first study to focus on children who were sexually abused by members of the household or family friends while living with foster carers, kinship carers, special guardians or adopters. It examines and analyses safeguarding reviews involving 87 children conducted between 2007 and 2022 and identifies what happened and why.
| Jane Poore, Alexandra Conroy-Harris, AFKA Scotland.
This Practice Note offers guidance on key aspects of children moving cross-border from England to Scotland to be placed with adopters approved in Scotland, specifically addressing common queries received by AFKA Scotland and CoramBAAF’s Advice Line.
| Roy Stewart and Alexandra Conroy-Harris / Pat Beesley / Shefali Shah
Essential reading for newly qualified social workers
| Roy Stewart with Alexandra Conroy-Harris
*NEW EDITION* This handy guide presents the law, regulations, standards and guidance relating to adoption today, covering all stages of the process and related information – in easily digested bite-sized chunks.
| Laura Payne
This guide will help social workers assess motivation to adopt, a key part of future adoption success. Information about fertility treatments, unconscious bias when assessing LGBTQ+ and single applicants, how to explore a wish to adopt for religious or environmental reasons, and discussion around the importance of expectations of family life, provide vital practice advice.
| Alison Davis and Sue Westwood
This guide will be invaluable for all social workers and social work managers wishing to explore the benefits of family network meetings and update their practice.
