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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.

Adoption by foster carers is an area of practice that has attracted controversy and divergent views prevail. This Good Practice Guide explores some of the issues behind the contradictory views. It challenges practitioners to reflect on the established “practice wisdom” and adopt a more open-minded and child-centred approach.

This open course provides an introduction to the Secure Base Model framework and specific related tools which enable practitioners to assess prospective foster carers’ and adopters’ parenting capacities and on-going support needs.

This research study examines adopters’ experiences of parenting a large sibling group, as well as the views of staff in adoption agencies who need to recruit and support adopters willing to take siblings. The study is based on in-depth interviews undertaking with 37 sibling group adopters and staff in 14 adoption agencies, which aimed to identify best practice in placing sibling groups for adoption, and what works and what doesn’t work for children, adopters and agencies.

NEW 2020 EDITION This book covers everything you need to know about adoption in Scotland. It describes the processes involved in adopting a child, with a wealth of practical information. You can also read the stories of adopters from how it feels to go through the adoption process to what life as an adoptive family is really like, and the stories of adopted children and how they think and feel about adoption.