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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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Proud parents

| Nicola Hill

This is a compelling collection of stories of lesbians and gay men who have adopted or fostered children. Single and in partnerships, they share their experiences on a number of issues and write about life as an adoptive family.

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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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Getting it right

| Alexandra Plumtree

This Good Practice Guide is designed to give comprehensive advice on the preparation and writing of social work court reports in a range of different Scottish child care cases. It covers a variety of topics that need to be considered, including types of courts and cases; sources of information; parental responsibilities and rights; disclosure issues; content and layout of reports; and legal requirements.

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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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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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Rethinking matching in adoptions from care

| David Quinton

This groundbreaking conceptual and research review summarises the beliefs and principles on which matching is currently based, the evidence of its effectiveness, and the research that can guide the development of the matching process. It provides essential and thought-provoking reading for practitioners which will spark a rethinking of matching practice.

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Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with dyslexia

| Chris Stanway and Lorna Miles

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 dyslexia. 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.