Making successful plans for staying in touch

Creating successful plans for staying in touch between children in care and their families involves regular, scheduled communication and personalised activities that promote connection. Utilising various methods like video calls, letters, and in-person visits, while ensuring the child’s emotional well-being and comfort, can help maintain strong family bonds. 

On the second day of Members’ Week, we will explore what making successful plans for staying in touch can look like from a range of perspectives including adoption, kinship care and foster care.

Contact - Are we getting it right for children and young people? with Sir Andrew McFarlane

Join us for a presentation by The Right Honourable Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division as he explores the challenges for social workers of maintaining connections between children and the families they work with.

Keeping in touch in kinship arrangements 

In this session we will explore how kinship families can be supported to enable children to stay in touch with the important people in their lives. When a child grows up in kinship care, family roles and relationships often shift and a child’s needs for connections with the important people in their lives can change as they grow and develop.

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Making plans for staying in touch

This pre-recorded video offers a taster of the benefits of joining our course ‘Making plans for staying in touch’. No two children or their families are the same. The most critical aspect of any staying in touch plan post-adoption is that it allows for individual needs and situations.

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