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CoramBAAF is excited to announce the release of the new Adoption Support Plan (ASP) for England, developed with input from Adoption England, a 2024 pilot with five RAAs, and consultations with Adoption UK. The ASP is compliant with relevant laws and is designed for key stages of the adoption process. It should be used alongside the updated Adoption Placement Report (APR) England 2025.

CoramBAAF is excited to announce the release of the new Adoption Support Plan (ASP) for England, developed with input from Adoption England, a 2024 pilot with five RAAs, and consultations with Adoption UK. The ASP is compliant with relevant laws and is designed for key stages of the adoption process. It should be used alongside the updated Adoption Placement Report (APR) England 2025.

Accurate and succinct minutes are an essential part of many meeting processes. They provide a formal record of the discussions and recommendations, and are used for a variety of purposes following the meeting including to inform decision-making, to contribute to child and carer files, and to provide an account of decision-made when children or adults access their files in the future. This course will help you learn the statutory and good practice requirements around minute-taking across various meeting contexts, including fostering and adoption panels, disruption meetings, carer reviews and professionals meetings. You will have the opportunity to practice skills to ensure your minutes are accurate, informative and of high quality.

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Overseas placements can feel like a step into the unknown. But exploring these placements can begin the journey toward a lasting, stable and loving home. In this session, we will be joined by Lead Practitioner Alison Wheeler who will share her experience of placing a child in Australia from Brighton and Hove Council on a Special Guardianship Order. Covering all aspects from viability to final placement, we will explore the challenges practitioners face in a real-world setting and how to navigate them successfully.

Some kinship carers are approved as kinship foster carers and therefore their situation and circumstances are often very different to mainstream foster carers. This course provides an opportunity to reflect on the statutory framework of approval, support, supervision and review of kinship foster carers and how this unique context differs from that of mainstream fostering. This course does not cover kinship assessment practice, but rather focuses on approval, support and review beyond the assessment process.  

This course is an opportunity to explore the unique context of kinship care and assessment of prospective kinship carers. Participants will explore professional and personal values and gain knowledge of what constitutes a robust kinship assessment within the legal and regulatory framework. The course will consider different assessment tools that can be used in kinship assessment practice, triangulation of information and effective support planning.

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The SGO academic research field in England and Wales lags significantly behind that of foster care and adoption. In this session, we will be joined by Julie Young who will be sharing her recent research which addresses this significant research gap around young people’s voices and the growing need to understand, as well as support, the experience of young people with SGOs.

Josh and Jaz are five-year-old twins who have been adopted by a lesbian couple, Sue and Fran. This heartwarming picture book encourages an understanding and appreciation of same-sex parents and other diverse family groupings.

COMING SPRING 2025! Undertaking a Kinship Assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of kinship carers/connected people/family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.