| Roger Chapman
This guide is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of prospective applicants who want to foster a child or children. It is to be used by assessing social workers to complete a Prospective Foster Carer’s Report using the CoramBAAF Form F (for England).
| Alexandra Conroy Harris with Deborah Cullen. Welsh additions by Sarah Coldrick
This quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions for the care of children in Wales. Designed to provide a basic framework, it presents a summary of the main statutes, regulations and court rules, with sections on all the main strands of law relating to parents, children and local authority responsibilities.
| Henrietta Bond
In today’s world, foster carers may have to respond to a wide range of sensitive and difficult issues that their fostered children or young people may encounter. As a carer, you may find these subjects hard to discuss, have little personal experience of them, or not know how best to approach them. This series of informative and accessible pamphlets will enable you to broach sensitive topics, respond to your child’s difficulties, recognise if your child is exposed to problematic situations, and safeguard and support them.
| Henrietta Bond
How can you help a young person in your care to develop healthy attitudes to sexual relationships? What about sexting and keeping safe online? What can you do to encourage safe sex and further an understanding of consent?
| Henrietta Bond
Why do children self-harm? Can and should they be stopped, or are there other ways to help children to express and manage their feelings in less risky ways and to promote self-esteem? Where can you get advice?
| Henrietta Bond
What does radicalisation mean? Are fostered children at greater risk of being radicalised? What attracts young people to extremist ideologies and how can you, as a carer, detect the signs that a child may be being groomed?
| Henrietta Bond
Cyberbullying, live streaming, online grooming, sexting, gaming…What are the implications for young people? How can you help a young person be safe online and reap the benefits of the internet while steering them away from its dangers?
| Henrietta Bond
How would you know if a young person belonged to a gang or was in danger of being groomed by one? What should you look out for? How can you help to steer them away and keep them safe?
| 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.
| Hannah Smith and Nikki Shepherd
This guide is a must for foster carers seeking to support the health of a child or young person in their care, and in turn help to improve their life chances. It is particularly suited to newly approved foster carers, but experienced carers will also find it useful to confirm or expand their knowledge.
