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This Advice Note explores adoption in stepfamilies, providing basic, clear facts for those who may be thinking about adopting stepchildren.

This Advice Note explores private fostering, providing basic, clear facts for all of those who may be involved.

This Advice Note explores kinship care, also called family and friends care or connected persons care, providing basic, clear facts for those who may be thinking about looking after a child in this situation.

This Advice Note explores the different options available for those looking after children in a kinship care situation, including special guardianship orders, kinship foster care and adoption.

This Advice Note explores special guardianship, providing basic, clear facts for those who may be thinking about looking after a child in this way.

This Practice Note provides guidelines for the testing of looked after children who are at risk of a blood-borne infection.

This Practice Note addresses the assessment of adopters who have already adopted a child or children and are applying for a second time.

This Practice Note provides information and guidance on the development and increased use of Fostering for Adoption placements. Raising questions and challenges about the information that should, and can legally, be provided to Fostering for Adoption carers, i.e. any dually-approved carers, including Regulation 25A carers, considering a placement under s.22C(9B)(c) of the Children Act (CA) 1989 in England.

This Practice Note provides guidance for social workers and policy makers on managing meetings between prospective adopters and children prior to matching. A range of "pre-meets" are starting to be used by agencies, and this Practice Note sets out the benefits and challenges of this approach.

Obesity is an escalating health problem in many countries, including the UK. Obesity is also a contentious area of practice, and for social workers involved in the assessment of applicants to foster and adopt it is just one of the many important issues to be considered, and can be very challenging.