Practice Note 70. The Fostering Decision-Maker (England)
| Paul Adams
This Practice Note offers guidance for fostering decision-makers in a range of matters to help them achieve high standards in undertaking this role.
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Complying with the GDPR and DPA 2018 - Appendices
| Paul Adams and Leonie Jordan
The Good Practice Guide Complying with the GDPR and DPA 2018 contains appendices including a range of privacy notices, information for children and a job description for a Data Protection Officer. These can be purchased as electronic Word documents for unlimited future use. Please note that you only need to buy ONE set for use across the agency.
Child care law England
| Alexandra Conroy Harris and Deborah Cullen
This quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions for the care of children in England. 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.
Undertaking a foster carer review
| 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.
Supporting the mental health of looked after and adopted children
| 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.
Practice Note 69. Assessing and supporting transgender foster carers and adopters
| 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.
Attachment handbook for foster care and adoption
| Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek
This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of attachment concepts.
Child care law Northern Ireland
| 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.
Children's health bundle
| Multiple
Get four of our children's books that explore the topic of health for £20 - usually £27.80! They include stories about foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia and other health-related themes.
Fostering unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people eBook only
| 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.