| Paul Adams. Welsh revisions by Amy Shepherd
This guide is designed to help social workers to complete a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children in Wales.
| 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.
| Paul Adams
This guide is designed to help social workers to complete a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.
| 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.
| BAAF
This Advice Note explores kinship care, also called family and friends care or connected persons care, providing basic, clear facts for those who may be thinking about looking after a child in this situation.
| Hedi Argent
The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners. This guide will help workers to recognise the challenges of kinship care and be better prepared to support kinship placements.
| Joan Hunt, Suzette Waterhouse Eleanor Lutman
This study provides invaluable information on the benefits and challenges of kinship care and what is to be done to enable it to be used effectively. The study tracked 113 children in England, removed from their parents’ care because of child protection concerns and placed with kin through the courts. The placements were then assessed in terms of: whether they lasted as long as necessary and provided good quality and safe care; the quality of the relationship between the child and carer; and how well the child was functioning.
