The CoramBAAF Health Special Interest Group provides our members with a forum to improve standards of practice for health professionals working in adoption, fostering, kinship and child care practice. It facilitates interdisciplinary understanding of health matters and the exchange of information and gives members a voice on regional and UK-wide issues to help influence policy and practice.
Benefits for members
- Receive our quarterly newsletter with news, updates, recommended training, etc relevant to health practitioners.
- Join our free Health Practice Conversation sessions.
- Be the first to hear about relevant training opportunities, webinars, etc.
- Access our briefing notes, position statements, reports, publications and research.
- Apply to join the Health Advisory Committee when vacancies come up.
- Read the minutes from the quarterly Health Advisory Committee meetings.
These are all in addition to your CoramBAAF membership benefits.
Membership is free and open to:
- Individual members of CoramBAAF who are working as a health practitioner
- Medical advisers to member agencies
- Specialist, named or designated nurses/doctors for looked after children and young people of member agencies
- Health visitors and school nurses working with looked after children and young people of member agencies
- Physicians, nurses and professionals who are employed by a corporate member of CoramBAAF and have a special interest in the health aspects of adoption, fostering and looked after children
- Trainee paediatricians who are undertaking medical advisory roles in adoption or fostering.