The Pink Guide - Proud Parents - Is it True You Have Two Mums?
| Multiple
Buy these three essential book together for only £30!
CoramBAAF Bookshop
Stepchildren and adoption (England and Wales)
| CoramBAAF
This Advice Note explores adoption in stepfamilies, providing basic, clear facts for those who may be thinking about adopting stepchildren.
The Role of Fostering for Adoption in Achieving Early Permanence for Children
| Elaine Dibben, Viv Howorth
This Good Practice Guide considers the effect of Fostering for Adoption (FfA) the landscape of permanence planning, and on the children, carers and practitioners involved.
New beginnings and other writings on being in care
| Various
This rare and rich collection of poetry and writing, by children and young people aged from nine to 24 years old, throws the spotlight on living in care - a subject rarely explored in literature and yet experienced by more than 60,000 children in the UK every year.
Practice Note 67. Local authorities' duty of fairness towards a parent seeking to revoke a placement order
| 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.
Practice Note 66. The health of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and other separated children
| 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.
Practice Note 65. Decisions about the assessment of couples and other partnerships in foster care (England)
| Paul Adams
Practice Note for when Fostering services will sometimes be approached by an individual who wants to foster, but they have a partner who does not want to be involved, or at least who does not want to be assessed as a foster carer. It is important that fostering services have a good understanding of the law in this regard, and what that means in practice.
Undertaking a health assessment
| Florence Merredew and Carolyn Sampeys
Undertaking a health assessment is designed to help health professionals to utilise the various CoramBAAF health forms that contribute to comprehensive evidence-based health assessments of looked after children, including those with an adoption plan, and prospective foster carers, adopters and kinship carers.