| Paul Adams
This Good Practice Guide has been developed alongside assessment forms for dogs and other pets, and provides advice on completing these forms, with samples included for guidance. It will be helpful in assisting fostering services and adoption agencies to develop carefully considered, logical and proportionate policies in relation to dogs and other pets.
| Helen Cosis Brown
This pioneering and informative Good Practice Guide sets out the process and practicalities and makes recommendations for good practice for foster carer reviews. It makes an invaluable contribution towards establishing good, evidence-based practice.
| Shefali Shah
This clear, concise guide supports practitioners and professionals by detailing recent changes in the law, including the Children and Families Act 2014, Family Justice Review and Fostering for Adoption. More importantly, it also explores how these changes are being applied in practice to meet children’s needs and reduce delay.
| Clare Pallett, Kathy Blackeby, Caroline Bengo, William Yule, Roger Weissman, Stephen Scott with Eileen Fursland
This guide aims to provide foster carers with new skills to help them manage a child’s behaviour and improve their relationship with him or her.
| Edited by Florence Merredew and Carolyn Sampeys
Every month we release a free chapter from one of our bestselling publications. For June, we are sharing the contents page, introduction and the eleventh chapter from ‘Promoting the health of children in public care’. This chapter focuses on unaccompanied asylum-seeking and other separated children.
| Anisa de Jong and Sharon Donnelly
This Good Practice Guide provides practical guidance, information, advice and signposts to further resources to help agencies and practitioners to welcome lesbian and gay applicants, and work effectively to assess and support them.
| Erica Amende and Linda Patterson
The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners. This quick reference guide considers some fundamental steps involved in devising a care plan.
| Hedi Argent
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 provides an essential checklist for anyone seeking the right new family for a disabled child.
| BAAF
This Advice Note provides information for those whose child is being adopted, in a situation where they agree with the actions being taken.
