Attachment handbook for foster care and adoption
| Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek
This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of attachment concepts.
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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.
The Role of Fostering for Adoption in Achieving Early Permanence for Children
| 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.
New beginnings and other writings on being in care
| 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.
Practice Note 66. The health of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and other separated children
| 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.
Practice Note 65. Decisions about the assessment of couples and other partnerships in foster care (England)
| Paul Adams
Practice Note for when Fostering services will sometimes be approached by an individual who wants to foster, but they have a partner who does not want to be involved, or at least who does not want to be assessed as a foster carer. It is important that fostering services have a good understanding of the law in this regard, and what that means in practice.
Dennis lives with Grandma and Grandpa
| Paul Sambrooks
The Dennis Duckling series provides a range of options for explaining to looked after children about what is happening in their lives. In the first two books, Dennis and his little sister have leave their parents and be looked after by a foster duck family. In this fourth book, the outcome for the ducklings is for them to be looked after by Grandma and Grandpa.
Thinking about fostering?
| Henrietta Bond
Packed with essential information and advice, this book provides a realistic and honest insight into what it means to look after other people’s children and provide a safe and supportive home.