Forms featured in 'Beyond together or apart' 2021 edition
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Word document files of all the forms included in the 2021 Good Practice Guide 'Beyond together or apart (2nd edition)' by Shelagh Beckett.
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Practice Note 75. Financial Support for Special Guardians (England)
| Dr Louise Sims
This Practice Note highlights the key legislation that guides policy and practice in making support payments to special guardians. It also explores the associated case law and also explores the associate case law and Ombudsman findings.
Devising and Updating Risk Assessment and Management Plans in Fostering
| Paul Adams
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.
Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: Learning from case reviews 2007–2019
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This good practice guide is based on a UK-wide study of 52 case reviews concerning 98 children who had died or experienced serious harm while living with foster carers, adopters or special guardians. The study spans a 12-year period and is the first to focus exclusively on reviews of cases of children in alternative family care. Consequently, it shines a spotlight on those issues that are particular to these children – the selection and assessment of their carers; the support both children and carers receive; and the supervision and management of such arrangements.
The Child's Legal Journey through Care
| Shefali Shah
This innovative guide demystifies the law by explaining its application to children’s rights, children’s possible routes through care, and the legal stages of Children Act proceedings, Written in a clear and simple manner, it sets out what practitioners should do to achieve the best outcomes for children while fulfilling what the law requires.
Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: A guide to reflective practice
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This companion guide draws upon information in the associated Good Practice Guide, 'Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: Learning from case reviews 2007–2019' which details the results of a UK-wide study of 52 case reviews concerning 98 children who had died or experienced serious harm while living with foster carers, adopters or special guardians.
Writing a later life letter
| Fran Moffat
A later life letter is one written by a social worker to a child who is being adopted, to help the child make sense of their past, but it is intended to be read later in the child’s life - a difficult and delicate task even for experienced workers. This Good Practice Guide focuses on the practicalities of writing a later life letter.