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COMING SUMMER 2025! Undertaking a Kinship Assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of kinship carers/connected people/family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This companion guide draws on information in the associated Good Practice Guide, 'Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: Learning from safeguarding reviews 2007–2022'. This guide details the results of a study of safeguarding reviews involving 87 children, who were sexually abused by members of the household or family friends while living with foster or kinship carers, special guardians or adopters.
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This is the first study to focus on children who were sexually abused by members of the household or family friends while living with foster carers, kinship carers, special guardians or adopters. It examines and analyses safeguarding reviews involving 87 children conducted between 2007 and 2022 and identifies what happened and why.
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Get your copies of the most popular titles in our Parenting Matters series. These books address key areas around trust, behavioural issues and trauma, and how these can affect children’s behaviour and learning in education.
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Get our newest children's book, 'Where did my dinosaur go?', alongside our most popular children's book series for a discounted price!
| Fergus Smith, Chris Brann and Alexandra Conroy Harris / Pat Beesley / Shefali Shah / Alison Davis / Paul Adams
Save when you purchase five of our best selling fostering titles in our new bumper bundle pack! Essential reading for newly qualified social workers.
| Paul Calder, Amelia Goswell, Bradley Kemp, Meryl Westlake and Eva A Sprecher, Lauren Fernandes
The meerkats Mia and Kit do not like their new home, not one bit of it! They don’t like their new routine, their new bedroom, or new foods for dinner – and most of all, they definitely do not like their new carer, Becky the capybara. But when the meerkats stay with Becky, they discover that a new home can be OK, and sometimes it’s alright to trust new people.
| Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek
Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research.
