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Unlawful placements in kinship care

Bookshop product-- Ann Horne, Alexandra Conroy Harris, and Augusta Itua

In many situations, the reality of the placement becoming unlawful speaks more to the limitations of the regulations themselves, than whether the placement is the best place for a child to live. In an effort to help practitioners navigate these challenges, we have published the following a practice note.

Inter-agency fees

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The latest information on the agreed Inter-agency Fees for placements between LAs and RAAs and for placements with VAAs.

Promoting attachment and resilience

Bookshop product- 978 1 913384 23 4 - 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.

The secure base model

Bookshop product- 978 1 913384 22 7 - 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.

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer St David’s Children Society is a registered charity and not for profit  voluntary adoption and fostering agency. Due to the pending retirement of the CEO of St David’s Children Society, an exciting opportunity has arisen to lead this vibrant, forward-thinking Agency into the next stage of its development.  We seek an experienced, creative and passionate leader, combining innovation and commitment, to deliver on the Agency’s three-year Strategic Plan. The successful candidate will demonstrate energy, expertise and knowledge of the contemporary challenges facing adoption.  They will champion the modernisation agenda to ensure adoption is the placement of choice for those children unable to live with members of their birth family. They will demonstrate energy in driving forward developments in fostering and wider permanency spectrum.  The successful candidate will be able to evidence the professional, technical and managerial skills required to motivate and lead a team to optimise life chances for children. They will also demonstrate the ability to work in partnership with colleagues in the statutory and voluntary sector.  St David's Children Society To be negotiated Cardiff Full time