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Kinship assessment timescales: impact and practice considerations

| Anne Horne

Many kinship assessments are completed during public law proceedings, but in some cases courts are requiring unrealistically short timescales for assessments to take place, causing negative impacts on children and families. This Practice Note sets out clear advice on the importance of 12-week timescales, to provide clarity for all those involved in or who have influence over the timetabling of kinship assessments, including judges, solicitors and barristers.

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Options for kinship carers (England and Wales)

| CoramBAAF

This Advice Note explores the different options available for those looking after children in a kinship care situation, including special guardianship orders, kinship foster care and adoption.

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Child care law Scotland

| Rhona Pollock

This quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions and principles affecting the law relating to child care in Scotland.

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Dennis, Harriett and Flynn live in different families

| Paul Sambrooks

The Dennis Duckling series of picture books provides a range of opportunities to talk to looked after children about what is happening in their lives. In the first two books, Dennis and his little sister have to leave their parents and be looked after by a foster duck family. This book recaps the story, before following Dennis and his siblings as it is decided they need to live apart, in different duck families.

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Recruiting LGBTQ+ foster carers

| Emma Fincham and Matt Taylor-Roberts

The purpose of this Practice Note is to support and strengthen the recruitment of LGBTQ+ foster carers by guiding fostering services towards approaches that are inclusive, equitable and affirming.

Effective Fostering Panels 2026

Effective fostering panels

| Sarah Borthwick with Elaine Dibben

What are the roles and responsibilities of fostering panel members? What regulations and standards determine the functioning of a fostering panel? How can panels implement best practice to improve their work and make better placements? Effective fostering panels answers these and many other questions.

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Undertaking a Foster Carer Review Wales

| Paul Adams, revised by Tracy Bowen

This guide will help social workers to plan and carry out a comprehensive and evidence-based review of foster carers. It is designed to be used alongside CoramBAAF’s Form FR (Wales).

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Parental consent and children/young people who are living in private fostering arrangements

| Ann Horne, Augusta Itua and Clare Seth

This Practice Note explains that private fostering does not require parental consent, either written or verbal. The local authority must assess and monitor any such arrangement under the Children Act 1989 and the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations 2005, focusing on safeguarding and promoting the child’s welfare rather than how the arrangement came about. While parental involvement is encouraged, it is not a legal requirement.

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Matching children from England with adopters approved in the Isle of Man

| Jane Poore and Alexandra Conroy-Harris

This Practice Note offers guidance on key aspects of children moving from England to the Isle of Man to be placed with adopters approved in the Isle of Man. The process of placing children across Regions of the UK comes with some complexity, given that regulations, guidance and practice differ between the two jurisdictions.