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Incidents of racism, intimidation, and hate crime are rising, impacting children’s social care professionals, foster carers, and the families they support. CoramBAAF is committed to listening, providing resources, and developing tools to help practitioners have essential conversations and challenge discrimination to ensure children feel safe and proud of their identity.

The new Initial Health Assessment Delivery Standards by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health aim to improve children and young people’s experience of IHAs, their outcomes and their health and wellbeing. This will contribute to a reduction in the longer-term health disparities experienced by children and young people in care compared to their peers.

Clare Seth, Kinship Consultant for CoramBAAF, reflects on the recent kinship conference that she organised alongside Ann Horne. She outlines the key lessons she took away from the speakers about developing the kinship local offer.

Placing children overseas with kinship carers requires flexible, individual plans that protect identity and relationships. Social workers must ensure practical support for ongoing contact with parents, siblings, foster carers, and friends despite cultural, language, and logistical challenges.