| Dr Louise Sims
This Practice Note highlights the key legislation that guides policy and practice in making support payments to special guardians. It also explores the associated case law and also explores the associate case law and Ombudsman findings.
| Leonie Jordan / Dr Louise Sims
This Practice Note looks at the importance of social workers discussing with special guardians possible family arrangements for a special guardian child, were the special guardian to become unable to look after them due to health difficulties.
| 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.
| CoramBAAF
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.
| Paul Adams
This Practice Note explores exactly what should be covered in a fostering panel Annual Report including panel membership, casework, recommendations and decisions, themes, issues from previous panel reports and user feedback.
| Paul Adams
This Practice Note offers guidance for fostering decision-makers in a range of matters to help them achieve high standards in undertaking this role.
| Claire Brown, Charlotte Andrew and Paul Adams
This Practice Note has been written to assist practitioners who are assessing transgender applicants in the UK who wish to foster or adopt, and to help fostering services and adoption agencies to work in a way that encourages and values applications from this group of people.
| Mary Mather and Karen Lehner, revised and updated by Ellie Johnson
This Practice Note updates previous CoramBAAF guidance in the light of changing scientific information and the improved understanding of the effects on health of exposure to passive or second-hand smoke from cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco. This guidance also considers the use of electronic cigarettes/vaping devices by substitute carers.
| CoramBAAF and Coram Children’s Legal Centre
When a parent seeks permission to appeal against the placement order or permission to apply to revoke the placement order, the local authority is faced with decisions about how to avoid delay in progressing the adoption plan for the child that the court has authorised, while also respecting the parent’s legal right to either appeal or to seek to revoke the order.
| CoramBAAF
Although only a small minority of looked after children will be asylum seekers and separated from their families, health professionals need an understanding of their circumstances and additional needs.
