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This quick reference guide explores the important issue of recruiting new carers and welcoming a wide range of permanent families. Written in an accessible and straightforward style it provides a breadth of information and advice that will provide social workers with a framework for best practice in family-finding.

This is a book about ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. It is a collection of first-person accounts from foster carers, who tell us what it's like to foster children and young people, many of whom have experienced loss, trauma, abuse, or just a very difficult start in life. Invariably, they experience problems, challenges and disappointments, but also the successes, triumphs and rewards that fostering can offer.

Reunification has been little studied in the UK but given its place in care planning for looked after children, it certainly deserves greater attention. This study, looking at 180 children, follows the patterns and outcomes of return home; which factors are associated with successful and unsuccessful returns; and the families' views on returns. The results of the study provide important conclusions for policy and practice.

Rufus the cat loved curling up in his favourite place and dreaming of pilchards. But it hadn’t always been like this… When Rufus was a kitten, he lived with a different family who weren’t always kind. Would he ever find a safe place where he could be cosy and calm and dream his dreams?

Many people considering adoption, both couples and single people, will have experienced infertility - in fact, it is frequently a central motivating factor behind an adoption application. This practice guide explores how best to approach this subject with prospective adopters, what topics to consider in the assessment process, and how the experience of infertility can affect adoption applicants.

2022 EDITION This Good Practice Guide aims to set out a protocol for dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) in order to improve services for adult care leavers and establish greater consistency and quality practice across organisations.

This booklet focuses on children arriving from Afghanistan and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.

This booklet focuses on children arriving from Sudan and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.

NEW 2020 EDITION - This booklet focuses on children arriving from Iraq and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.

This booklet focuses on children arriving from Eritrea and provides specific information to give foster carers an understanding of the kind of country, society and family a child may have come from.