The secure base model
| Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek
Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research.
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Promoting attachment and resilience
| Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek
This practical guide is designed to support foster carers and adopters in offering the best possible sensitive care for troubled children who have often experienced trauma and loss, using the Secure Base Model.
Private fostering: what it is and what it means
| Henrietta Bond
This short, colourful booklet is part of CoramBAAF’s series of publications for children and young people, which aim to explain concepts in adoption and fostering that they may find difficult to understand.
Working with children who have experienced neglect
| Victoria Sharley and Alyson Rees
This Good Practice Guide is designed to be a practical text for busy social workers and other practitioners in a range of services responsible for safeguarding children. With its easy to digest format and authoritative advice, this guide is a vital companion for all those working for and concerned with children’s welfare.
Fostering starter pack
| Fergus Smith, Chris Brann and Alexandra Conroy Harris / Pat Beesley / Shefali Shah
Essential reading for newly qualified social workers
Parenting Matters: Parenting a child affected by child to parent violence and aggression
| Hedwig Verhagen
This new title in the Parenting Matters series provides authoritative, clinical guidance for carers and adopters on why child to parent violence and aggression can occur and what can be done about it.
Private fostering
| CoramBAAF
This Advice Note explores private fostering, providing basic, clear facts for all of those who may be involved.
Undertaking a Connected Person/Kinship Assessment in Wales
| Paul Adams. Welsh revisions by Amy Shepherd
This guide is designed to help social workers to complete a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children in Wales.
Caring for children who have experienced domestic abuse
| Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose
This Good Practice Guide shines a spotlight on the thousands of children who have experienced or witnessed domestic abuse prior to coming into care – its possible effects, the care these children need, and how best to assess, prepare and support them and the families caring for them.