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How can teenagers in foster care best be supported to deal with the challenges that life has thrown at them? How can their foster carers help them to find effective ways to manage their behaviour, engage with their peers, make the most out of education, and find their way towards a fulfilling adult life? This handbook aims to support foster carers as they identify the unique needs of the young person in their care. 

This special edition of Adoption & Fostering encourages greater understanding of the neurobiological sciences and how they are used to inform family policy and practice.

A well-established and popular training programme that has been used extensively throughout the UK for many years. The Applicant's Workbook contains articles on a number of topics covered in the training programme as well as narratives from adopters and writing by adopted children and young people that offer an insight into their feelings about adoption.

This clear, straightforward handbook aims to support foster carers so that they can help the children in their care to have the best possible experience of education.

This Practice Note explores exactly what should be covered in a fostering panel Annual Report including panel membership, casework, recommendations and decisions, themes, issues from previous panel reports and user feedback.

This booklet focuses on children arriving from Vietnam 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 quick reference guide provides a quick introduction to the main legal provisions and principles affecting the law relating to child care in Scotland.

The introductory booklet provides information for foster carers and residential care workers who are, or who will be, looking after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people. It explores who these young people are, where they come from, what their journeys may have been like, what their specific needs are now, and how carers can help and support them.