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CoramBAAF has just published a new Good Practice Guide and companion guide that together address the critical issue of child sexual abuse in foster care, kinship care, adoption, and special guardianship. These guides explore the challenges professionals face, practical strategies for safeguarding, and the importance of reflective practice to better protect vulnerable children.

The recently published coroner's report into the death of a child while being carried hands-free in a baby sling carrier, follows a number of deaths worldwide of babies linked to incorrect positioning in harness and sling type carriers. CoramBAAF encourages our members to make parents and carers aware of good sources of child safety advice when using slings.

We have been updating and revising a number of our core forms as well as developing a new one with partners. We are reaching the exciting point of being ready to share these updates and revisions with our members and forms licence holders.

To align with the national policy reform agenda and address the complexity and importance of kinship care, we have collaborated with carers, practitioners, managers and parents to review Form C resulting in the creation of Form K to enable comprehensive assessments of prospective kinship carers.