Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to adoption, fostering and kinship issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for academics, practitioners and all those concerned with childcare practice and research.
Edited by Dr Dennis Golm, Adoption & Fostering is published by SAGE on behalf of the CoramBAAF Adoption & Fostering Academy.
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In this episode, we explore the critical question posed by Editor-in-Chief Dennis Golm in the latest edition of Adoption & Fostering – how inclusive and diverse are current UK foster care research and practice? The March issue (Volume 49, Issue 1) highlights the gap between growing awareness and meaningful change, calling for more representative research and inclusive practices.
In this episode, Dr. Dennis Golm explores the findings of a recent systematic review examining outcomes for foster carers and adoptive parents who participated in attachment-based group interventions. He speaks with the review’s authors: Dr. Ranjitha David, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with the CAMHS Crisis Team in Nottingham; Dr. Pallab Majumder, also a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Nottingham; and Natasha Dembrey, a paediatric trainee (PT3). Together, they discuss the current evidence, practical implications, and future directions for supporting carers and children through attachment-informed approaches.
Volume 49 (Issue 1, March 2025)
Editorial
How diverse are UK foster care research and practice?
Dennis Golm
Articles
How inclusive and representative is research on foster caring in the UK? Findings from a scoping review
Rachael Stemp, Shayma Izzidien, Shivani Sharma, Karen Irvine, Nick Midgley
Looking past the stereotypes – Disabled people as foster carers
Peter Unwin, Alexandra Jones, Becki Meakin
Group intervention for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities with children in placement: A case study exploring the long-term process and outcomes
Sandra Melander Gunnel Janeslätt, Päivi Adolfsson, Karin Jöreskog
An exploration of the experience of foster carers in holding the life stories of the children in their care: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Lisa Coe, Alexander Hassett, Karen Treisman
Social work professionals’ perspectives on using independent foster care: A contested way to compensate for organisational failure?
Evelina Fridell Lif
Agency in the developmental paths of young adults with a foster care background
Elli-Maria Kamula, Riitta-Leena Metsäpelto, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty, Anna-Maija Poikkeus
Legal Notes
Northern Ireland
Kerry O’Halloran
Scotland
Rhona Pollock
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