The Practice Notes series is designed for social workers and other practitioners, and give recommendations for good practice in specific areas.
Members can download any of the following PDFs for their personal use.
Non-members can purchase Practice Notes in the Bookshop.
Please note that some of the earlier Practice Notes may not be current but could still be of use for reference purposes.
2023
Unlawful placements in kinship care
2021
Practice Note 75 - Financial Support for Special Guardians (England)
2020
Practice Note 73 - Disabled Foster Carers
Practice Note 72 - Planning the Assessment of a Foster Carer's New Partner
Practice Note 71 - Writing a Fostering Panel Annual Report
2019
Practice Note 70 - The Fostering Decision-Maker (England)
2018
Practice Note 69 - Assessing and supporting transgender foster carers and adopters
2017
Practice Note 66 - The health of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and other separated children
Practice Note 63 - Restraint and physical intervention in foster care
2015
Practice Note 59 - The provision of information to Fostering for Adoption carers
Practice Note 58 - Adoption leave
2014
Practice Note 57 - Evaluation of permanence options
Practice Note 56 - Paperless fostering and adoption panels
2009
Practice Note 54 - Assessing second-time adopters
2008
Practice Note 53 - Guidelines for the testing of looked after children who are at risk of a blood-borne infection (superseded by Practice Note 76)
2007
Practice Note 52 - Adoption relative from abroad
2006
Practice Note 50 - Genetic testing and adoption
Practice Note 49 - The role of male carers in adoption and fostering
2005
Practice Note 48 - Featuring children in the mainstream media
2004
Practice Note 46 - Health screening of children adopted from abroad