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
Chair and Vice Chair for the Luton Adoption Panel
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
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)
The Independent Review Mechanism for England are currently looking for panel members to join our team. The postholders must be able to assimilate and analyse complex information from the case papers to enable them to identify the applicants’ strengths as well as core issues. The postholders are required to prepare questions for panel and to subsequently review panel minutes. The IRM provides panel documents in electronic format, as it is a digitalised service.
Independent Review Mechanism
£115 per case
Homebased
Variable as and when panels are heard
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.
Adoption Support Social Worker
We are recruiting a qualified social worker with a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience to join an Adoption Support Team within Adopt London East. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of this Regional Adoption Agency which provides adoption services on behalf of the London Boroughs of Havering (host borough), Barking and Dagenham, Tower Hamlets and Newham. The Adoption Support Team provide a service to adopted children and their adoptive families, birth families and adopted adults.
Adopt London East
£40,833 - £45,021pa (Plus £4k Market Supplement)
Romford and Home Working
2784
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