Establishing effective fostering panels
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A course to guide newly-established fostering panels on legal contexts, roles and responsibilities, dilemmas and best practice
Practice Note 71. Writing a Fostering Panel Annual Report
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This Practice Note explores exactly what should be covered in a fostering panel Annual Report including panel membership, casework, recommendations and decisions, themes, issues from previous panel reports and user feedback.
Practice Note 70. The Fostering Decision-Maker (England)
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This Practice Note offers guidance for fostering decision-makers in a range of matters to help them achieve high standards in undertaking this role.
Adoption & Fostering Supplement: 40 years
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To mark 40 years of BAAF/CoramBAAF, CoramBAAF's John Simmonds selects a series seminal articles from Adoption & Fostering that illustrate some of the most significant themes that have arisen over the years, featuring some of the UK’s most knowledgeable scholars and practitioners working in child care practice and research.
Ethical challenges and solutions in artificial intelligence: Reflections from Members' Week
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In this piece, James Bury, Managing Director of Policy, Research and Development, reflects on the uses of AI in social work and some of its challenges. Arguing that AI should be understood as a powerful tool that can potentially support practice rathe than direct it.
Fostering Panel Members
Fostering Panel Members
The postholder will read the circulated papers carefully before the meeting and to attend the meeting prepared to raise issues and to contribute to the panel discussion. The postholder will take responsibility for participating in the making of a recommendation, on each case, drawing on both personal and professional knowledge and experience. The postholder will attend at least 75 per cent of the Panel Meetings and to be prepared to attend additional Panels, if possible, if requested. The postholder will participate, with other Panel Members, in advising on policy and procedural matters as required.
Barnsley MBC
£150 per Panel (£75 for a half day Panel)
Westgate Plaza One, 1 Westgate, Barnsley S70 2DR
Fostering Panel Members
2 Panels a month, one is face to face at Westgate & one is a virtual Panel.
Adoption & Fostering Editor’s pick: ‘Keeping secrets’
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Roger Bullock, Commissioning Editor of Adoption & Fostering, reflects on the journal’s unique role and responsibilities and shares an article from our backlist on foster care, stigma and secrecy.