Welcome to Members’ Week 2024!
News and updates-20 Sep 2024 - 10:49
CoramBAAF’s Head of Member Services and Engagement, Michelle Bell, kicks off this year’s event, introducing the range of activities planned for the week themed around “Listening to the child...”
Panel Chair and Vice Chair
Do have you experience chairing professional meetings? Are you passionate about ensuring children, who cannot live with their birth families, can grow up in happy and safe environments? Do you have experience, professionally or personally, of adoption? Are you confident in working with professionals of all levels and members of the public? We at Luton Borough Council are looking for a Panel Chair and Vice Chair to join our Adoption Panel, which meets monthly. We are specifically looking to increase our diversity, including more male Panel members, younger members and diversity regarding ethnicity eg Eastern European and representatives from the LGBTQ+ community with adoption experience. Luton Council Chair £500 per panel; Vice Chair £350 per panel Luton, Town Hall Panel Chair and Vice Chair As required
Supporting children living with kinship carers overseas to stay in touch with friends and family in the UK
News and updates-23 Sep 2024 - 09:48
Sandra Latter of CoramBAAF’s Outbound Permanence Service highlights the challenges of placing children overseas with kinship carers, especially when considering cultural and family differences. Many children, 40% of whom are of mixed ethnicity, have little connection with their overseas carers before placement.
IRM Panel Member (Registered Social Workers)
Amplifying foster carers' voices to truly hear the children in their care
News and updates-23 Sep 2024 - 15:14
A foster carer from our advisory committee shares their experiences of helping the children in their care to stay in touch with their birth family, how different that can look for each child, and the impact of supporting staying in touch arrangements on the foster carers themselves.