| Paul Adams
Updated guide on how to collect and analyse information for a foster carer review using Form FR (England). This 2019 edition is now GDPR compliant and contains updated information on terms of approval, and the reviewing of foster carers’ health.
| Karen Aldred and Helen Rodwell
This Good Practice Guide for social workers translates the theoretical concepts and research about children’s mental health into straightforward language and practical advice. Taking a holistic and attachment-focused approach, it demonstrates how to understand children’s background and current events, rather than focusing on diagnostic criteria and labels.
| Claire Brown, Charlotte Andrew and Paul Adams
This Practice Note has been written to assist practitioners who are assessing transgender applicants in the UK who wish to foster or adopt, and to help fostering services and adoption agencies to work in a way that encourages and values applications from this group of people.
| Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek
This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of attachment concepts.
| Michael Long
This quick reference guide presents a useful overview and accessible summary of the main legal provisions and principles affecting the law relating to child care in Northern Ireland. New updated 2018 edition.
| Multiple
Get four of our children's books that explore the topic of health for £20 - usually £27.80! They include stories about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia and other health-related themes.
| Jim Wade, Ala Sirriyeh, Ravi Kohli and John Simmonds
This research study examines the results of a census survey of four local authorities, looking after over 2,000 unaccompanied young people. How did local authorities plan for and place the young people? How did the young people settle in their foster families, and how did they and the foster carers experience the placement? This study presents a range of implications for policy and practice.
| Elaine Dibben, Viv Howorth
This Good Practice Guide considers the effect of Fostering for Adoption (FfA) the landscape of permanence planning, and on the children, carers and practitioners involved.
| Various
This rare and rich collection of poetry and writing, by children and young people aged from nine to 24 years old, throws the spotlight on living in care - a subject rarely explored in literature and yet experienced by more than 60,000 children in the UK every year.
| CoramBAAF
Although only a small minority of looked after children will be asylum seekers and separated from their families, health professionals need an understanding of their circumstances and additional needs.
