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Placing large sibling groups for adoption

| Hilary Saunders, Julie Selwyn and Eileen Fursland

The importance of maintaining sibling relationships is widely recognised, but it is not always easy to find families willing and able to adopt sibling groups. This Good Practice Guide examines how adoption agency staff and children’s social workers handle the adoption process for large sibling groups, with an emphasis on practices and policies which may help or hinder prospective sibling group adopters and the children they wish to adopt.

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Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with developmental delay

| Pamela Bartram and Sue and Jim Clifford

This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children. This book focuses on developmental delay. If you are looking to adopt a child, this guide will give you practical and realistic information on what this condition may mean for your child, along with their symptoms, prognosis and treatment.

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Remote control

| Henrietta Bond

This is the third book in the Control freak trilogy of young adult novels about Holly Richards, a young care leaver. The finale is fast-paced, entertaining and moving.

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Pathways through education for young people in care

| Edited by Sonia Jackson

Edited by one of the world’s leading experts on education and looked after children, this anthology argues that education, in its broadest sense, should be at the centre of care and care at the centre of education. It brings together up-to-date evidence from interdisciplinary research with innovations in practice that have been shown to make a real difference – both in the UK and overseas.

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Ten top tips on supporting education

| Eileen Fursland with Kate Cairns and Chris Stanway

The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners. This book looks at some positive steps that workers and carers can take to support looked after children in school.

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Adversity, adoption and afterwards

| Julia Feast, Margaret Grant, Alan Rushton, John Simmonds and Carolyn Sampeys

This unique study explores the long-term outcomes for a group of girls, now women in middle age, adopted from orphanages in Hong Kong, by families in the UK. The study offers a rare opportunity to explore the impact of adverse early experience, modified by adoption in creating opportunities and risks, over 50 years.

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Talking about adoption to your adopted child

| Marjorie Morrison

How can I start talking to my adopted child about their past? What information do children need at different ages? What if my child has difficult or painful experience in their past? Talking about adoption will help you find answers to these tricky questions. It outlines the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child’s origins.

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Losing control

| Henrietta Bond

This is the second in the Control Freak trilogy of young adult novels about Holly Richards, a young care leaver.