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Social Work Week Event: Writing about children - recognising how language can impact a child’s journey
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FREE EVENT
As part of Social Work England: Social Work Week (20-24 March 2023) - a programme of events from across the sector. The webinar examined how social workers write about children and young people. Care experienced adults report that reading their files can be hugely impactful for them. We discussed how language used when describing a child and their experiences can be interpreted at a later date.
CoramBAAF Members' Week | Should being ‘care experienced’ be a protected characteristic?
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FREE FOR MEMBERS
On the 27 September, Terry will be joined by a panel consisting of Anne Longfield, CBE, Cllr. Bryony Goodliffe, CCC, Cllr. Jemima Laing, PCC, Florence Chiwetu and two young people supported by CoramVoice to discuss, debate and share his vision of a more equitable future for care-experienced people. We will also be discussing the pathways and priorities for bringing “care experienced” under the protection of law and what this could mean for policy and practice. Our Chair is Ellen Broomé, Managing Director of CoramBAAF. Join us at 11.30am. for our key Members' Week event.
The adultification of Black girls in state care
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Sylvia Ikomi shares research findings from her trip to America to explore the adultification of Black girls in state care.
Does the new implementation strategy go far enough for kinship carers and their families?
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The recently announced 'Children's social care: Stable Homes, Built on Love' sets out the Government’s implementation strategy following the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. The changes proposed include significant changes to the kinship care landscape including a National Kinship Strategy.
Reflections on care planning in the kinship context
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Clare Seth, our Kinship Consultant, answers your questions about kinship care planning. These questions were asked by our attendees during our Members' Week webinar.
Children and Families Support Worker (Early Permanence Project)
Children and Families Support Worker (Early Permanence Project)
This role is a key post in an innovative early permanence project in partnership with Adopt South. Early Permanence is the arrangement where a child is placed with a family at the earliest opportunity. This is achievable by placing a child with approved adopters who have been prepared and assessed as suitable to undertake a temporary fostering role, who are then able to go on to adopt the child once the court proceedings have been concluded. We are looking for someone with a good knowledge of adoption and/or fostering acquired through a personal, professional or voluntary capacity. The post holder will be confident and experienced in providing exemplary support to families.
Parents And Children Together Salary in the range £23,793 – £29,079 per annum, £3,299 per annum location allowance payable if based in London Based in Reading or London with additional remote working at home arrangements in place 37
Parents And Children Together Salary in the range £23,793 – £29,079 per annum, £3,299 per annum location allowance payable if based in London Based in Reading or London with additional remote working at home arrangements in place 37
CoramBAAF Members' Week | Opening doors or closing futures: writing about young people in care
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MEMBERS ONLY
Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced author, social worker and campaigner & Emma Fincham is a social worker and fostering consultant. In this webinar they will explore how thinking, speaking and writing about young people directly impacts on increasing or decreasing their opportunities, their choices and decisions available to them.
Making good use of the ASGSF to support kinship families
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The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund has been available to children living with special guardians since 2016, and its name was changed in 2023 with the publication of the National Kinship Care Strategy. Although the number of applications made on behalf of children living with special guardians is slowly increasing, the number of applications is still considerably lower than those made for adopted children.