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Moving pictures is designed to help children explore ideas of moving and permanence. It consists of a CD-ROM which contains 16 black and white line drawings, illustrating various aspects of the move to permanence. They can be printed out for children to colour in and are designed to spark discussion of the child’s thoughts, wishes and hopes around the idea of moving to a new family. They can be used to prepare a child for a specific move or as part of life story work.

Attending court and giving evidence can be a daunting task for many social workers. Increasingly, children’ social workers, adoption social workers and managers are being called to give evidence on staying in touch plans, family-finding and matching when there is a care plan of adoption. This course is an opportunity to learn some key tips, hear advice directly from a legal advisor and practice giving verbal evidence.

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.

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund has been available to children living with special guardians since 2016, and its name was changed in 2023 with the publication of the National Kinship Care Strategy. Although the number of applications made on behalf of children living with special guardians is slowly increasing, the number of applications is still considerably lower than those made for adopted children.

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.

Fostering in Colour is the first documentary of its kind in the UK, telling the stories of Black and global majority foster carers in their own words. Join CoramBAAF for a screening and panel discussion on November 3 2026 at the Coram Campus in London.

This two hour training is aimed at local authority professionals – both social workers and lawyers - who are involved in the placement of children currently living in England to kinship carers overseas on a Special Guardianship Order. It will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding special guardianship for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues in overseas cases during the case study and group discussion.

This handy guide presents the law, regulations, standards and guidance relating to kinship today, covering all stages of the process and related information – in easily digested bite-sized chunks.

Many kinship assessments are completed during public law proceedings, but in some cases courts are requiring unrealistically short timescales for assessments to take place, causing negative impacts on children and families. This Practice Note sets out clear advice on the importance of 12-week timescales, to provide clarity for all those involved in or who have influence over the timetabling of kinship assessments, including judges, solicitors and barristers.

The 9th International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR) was held at the University of Porto in July 2026. This was an opportunity for researchers, professionals, adopted people and adopters from across the globe to discuss ideas, innovation and information, together with best-practice and contemporary evidence in adoption. In this session, we are delighted to be joined by a diverse team of specialists and academics who attended and presented at ICAR9, to discuss some of the learning and consider how this can apply to the children and families here in the UK.