| Cathie Jenkins and Sandra Latter
This Practice Note emphasises the initial aspects to consider before seeking to assess a potential kinship carer who lives overseas. It is not intended to cover all aspects of the topic, but to help establish basic eligibility.
| 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.
| Stevan Whitehead
Published as part of the Our Story series, this is the story of the adoption of two children from Guatemala. But it is more than that. It is a moving and inspirational account of how a couple, in their search to build their family, find not only two children but what will become their extended family – their familia.
| Abigail Knight, Elaine Chase, and June Statham
This ground-breaking report presents findings from an in-depth study of the perspectives and experiences of children and young people arriving unaccompanied to seek asylum in the UK. Based on conversations with 54 young people from 18 countries, this study reveals young people's experiences of their journeys, arriving in the UK, being in care, and a range of health, education, social care and immigration services. This is essential reading for anyone seeing to understand and support this vulnerable group.
| Edited by Perlita Harris
A thought-provoking anthology with more than 50 intensely moving testimonies. These writers convey the complexity for black and minority ethnic children of being raised by a white adoptive family.
