| 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.
| 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.
| Kate Cairns and Brian Cairns
Over a 25-year period Kate and Brian Cairns, who are social workers and trainers by profession, fostered 12 children, along with their three birth children. In this practical and moving book, they draw on their rich personal and professional experience to offer an insight into the realities of family life with children who have experienced attachment difficulties, loss, abuse and trauma.
| 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.
| 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.
| The Alternatives to Custody Project – Europe
This book is one of the main outcomes of a two-year pan-European project on developing intensive and remand fostering programmes for young people in conflict with the law, who might otherwise be in custody.
| Paul Adams
This Good Practice Guide has been developed alongside assessment forms for dogs and other pets, and provides advice on completing these forms, with samples included for guidance. It will be helpful in assisting fostering services and adoption agencies to develop carefully considered, logical and proportionate policies in relation to dogs and other pets.
| CoramBAAF
This Practice Note provides information and guidance on the development and increased use of Fostering for Adoption placements. Raising questions and challenges about the information that should, and can legally, be provided to Fostering for Adoption carers, i.e. any dually-approved carers, including Regulation 25A carers, considering a placement under s.22C(9B)(c) of the Children Act (CA) 1989 in England.
