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Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research.

The Teazles’ baby bunny is a colourful and delightful book on adoption suitable for very young children (two to four years old). It tells the story of the Teazle rabbits and their adoption of a baby bunny and is written in rhyme to make it easy for children to remember and repeat.

Packed with essential information and advice, this book provides a realistic and honest insight into what it means to look after other people’s children and provide a safe and supportive home.

This pamphlet provides advice and information for anyone thinking of joining, or about to join, a fostering panel in England.

This pamphlet provides advice and information for anyone thinking of joining, or about to join, an adoption panel in England.

Published as part of the Our Story series, this is the story of Ruth and Ed Royce’s journey from childlessness to celebrating as a family. From a dual perspective, each with their own anxieties, expectations and vulnerabilities, they look back on their decision to adopt, to the fear that their family was falling apart, to their experience of music and art therapy, and then on to their decision to adopt a second time.

This thought-provoking Good Practice Guide for social workers challenges the reader to place at the forefront of thinking and planning the importance of sibling relationships and their life-long impact and to plan accordingly...to think beyond together or apart.

For both children and carers, it is essential to manage transitions well and prevent them from turning into destructive endings. This course aims to help carers help traumatised children and themselves to face change and loss in a managed and constructive way.

Tyler, aged seven, thinks a lot about getting a forever family. Sometimes, his social worker helps him sort out what he feels and wants. There are all sorts of things on Tyler’s wish list, but most of all, he wishes for a new family who will love him and be kind. Tyler’s wishes is intended to help children who are waiting to be placed for adoption to understand and cope with their mixed feelings of uncertainty, apprehension and hope.

This guide is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based adoption and permanence report for a looked after child. It is to be used by assessing social workers to complete CoramBAAF’s Child’s Adoption and Permanence Report (CAPR) for Scotland (launched in 2015 to replace Form E).