| Multiple
The appendices to the Good Practice Guide Parent and Child Fostering include a set of forms that are specially designed to be used in this area of practice. The forms can be used by social workers, foster carers and other professionals to help collate observations from key sources and aid assessments.
| Paul Adams and Elaine Dibben
Parent and child arrangements with foster carers are a well-established phenomenon in England and Wales. In the majority of cases, this means adults with their children living with foster carers, usually in the context of care proceedings. This Good Practice Guide addresses the challenges faced by agencies and foster carers by this specialist area of work. It offers valuable advice, information and a host of practical suggestions on how to deliver a high quality service.
| Dr Peter Unwin / Becki Meakin / Alexandra Jones
This Practice Note considers the recruitment, assessment and support of disabled foster carers, with exploration of why such carers may be less likely than others to be taken on by agencies, and the benefits they can bring for children.
| Paul Adams
This Practice Note explores what assessing social workers should take into account when considering the assessment of a new partner of an existing foster carer, to ensure that correct practice is followed.
| Eileen Fursland
This booklet focuses on children arriving from Iraq and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.
| Eileen Fursland
This series of introductory booklets aims to provide information for foster carers and residential care workers who are, or who will be, looking after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people from certain countries - Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Sudan and Vietnam.
| Eileen Fursland
This booklet focuses on children arriving from Eritrea and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.
| Eileen Fursland
This booklet focuses on children arriving from Afghanistan and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.
| Eileen Fursland
This booklet focuses on children arriving from Sudan and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.
| Eileen Fursland
This booklet focuses on children arriving from Vietnam and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.
