Exploring Expertise: Caring for Children who have Experienced Domestic Abuse
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This session focused primarily on supporting children who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse prior to coming into care. It offered information on how domestic abuse affects children at different ages and stages in their development, the care these children need, and how best to assess, prepare and support them and the families caring for them. Presented by Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose OBE.
Practice Note 56. Paperless fostering and adoption panels
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This Practice Note looks at some of the issues involved in moving panels towards a greater use of digital technology.
Learning from Research: Making long-term foster care a positive permanence option- Messages from 25 years' of research
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Permanence remains the goal of children’s social care. But ensuring that children from troubled backgrounds grow up in ‘stable homes, built on love’ (Department for Education 2023) is inevitably a challenge in all forms of permanence. Emeritus Professor Gillian Schofield OBE and Dr. Birgit Larsson deliver their assessment of long-term foster care as a permanence option by sharing the messages from 25 years' of research at the University of East Anglia.
An introduction to neurodiversity in adoption, fostering and kinship care
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Let's acknowledge and celebrate difference. Understand neurodiversity as a natural variation to ‘the norm’ rather than as something that is disordered, dysfunctional or deficient. This session is an introduction to aspects of neurodiversity including autism, dyslexia and ADHD. It will give an overview to increase participants' knowledge and develop confidence in the subject.
Adoption & Fostering journal #20 | Vol.49 Issue 4 introduction with Dr Dennis Golm and Vicky Walker
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Getting started in: Permanence
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As the UK’s leading membership organisation for professionals working across adoption, fostering and kinship care we want to equip professionals like you with the knowledge, best practices, and resources needed to improve the lives of children and young people. This is why we are launching a breakfast webinar series to help you “get started in adoption, fostering and kinship care.
