Practice Note 54. Assessing second-time adopters
| BAAF
This Practice Note addresses the assessment of adopters who have already adopted a child or children and are applying for a second time.
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Exploring infertility issues in adoption eBook only
| Ian Millar and Christina Paulson-Ellis
Many people considering adoption, both couples and single people, will have experienced infertility - in fact, it is frequently a central motivating factor behind an adoption application. This practice guide explores how best to approach this subject with prospective adopters, what topics to consider in the assessment process, and how the experience of infertility can affect adoption applicants.
The child placement handbook
| Edited by Gillian Schofield and John Simmonds
The last 30 years have seen a significant investment by successive governments in providing a research evidence base for child placement and in making connections between research, policy and practice. This authoritative collection of reviews of key aspects of child placement, written by renowned and leading academics and practitioners, aims to capture something of this wealth of knowledge and wisdom across diverse child placement issues.
Elfa and the box of memories
| Michelle Bell
Memories can be good and bad, happy and sad; those we want to keep alive and others we would rather forget. Looked after children may have more difficult memories that most, because of separation and loss and traumatic events that may have taken place. In this charming picture book, Elfa the elephant discovers that sharing her memories and remembering the good things that happened is more helpful than keeping them locked away.
My book of memories
| Michelle Bell
The booklet, designed for children to complete, that accompanies Elfa and the box of memories
The family business
| Robert Marsden
Published as part of the Our Story series, The family business is the true story of the adoption of William, a little boy with cerebral palsy, by a middle-aged couple with three birth children. It tells of the journey William and the other members of the family made to get to the point where they felt they were a whole family.
The Teazles' baby bunny
| Susan Bagnall
The Teazles’ baby bunny is a colourful and delightful book on adoption suitable for very young children (two to four years old). It tells the story of the Teazle rabbits and their adoption of a baby bunny and is written in rhyme to make it easy for children to remember and repeat.
The colours in me
| Edited by Perlita Harris
What do adopted children and young people really feel about being adopted? How do they feel about being parted from birth parents and siblings and, for some, their country of birth? This unique and intensely moving collection of poetry, prose and artwork allows 80 contributors to tell it like it is.
Mother me
| Zara H Phillips
This is is a frank and honest account which explores the far-reaching impact of adoption on childhood, adolescence, relationships and self-esteem. It also gives insight into motherhood from the perspective of an adopted woman.