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Exploring Expertise: Access to records for care-experienced and adopted people

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FREE FOR MEMBERS
Help to safeguard vital information and improve the culture, processes and experience of all involved in developing and receiving records by contributing to forthcoming guidance on managing the records of care-experienced and adopted people in England and Wales. This participatory session will shape forthcoming best practice guidance for managing care-experienced and adopted people’s records in England and Wales. Sarah Wickham is a consultant information manager and archivist. She has worked in the public and private sector over her 30-year career. With Kevin Bolton, Sarah is delivering this project for the Chief Archivists In Local Government Group (CALGG) of the Archives and Records Association.

Learning from Research: The wellbeing of children in care - comparing those in kinship and unrelated foster care

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FREE EVENT
The presentation will use data from the Bright Spots Programme, a joint partnership between Coram Voice and the University of Oxford, funded by the Hadley Trust. This session examines the views of over 1,200 children (4-10yrs) and young people (11-18yrs) in kinship foster care in 38 local authorities comparing their well-being indicators with those in unrelated foster care. Our presenters are Julie Selwyn, Professor of Education and Adoption Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, and Linda Briheim, Head of Policy and Practice Development at Coram Voice.

Lunch & Learn: Expressions of Self | Understanding care-experienced young people’s intersectional identities, through their stories

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OPEN TO ALL
Part three of our Lunch & Learn series in collaboration with Adoption England. The Nuffield-funded Expressions of Self research project aimed to listen to minoritised looked-after children and young people’s narratives on ethnicity, religion and identity, to inform policy and practice about their needs. In this session, we will use young people’s stories of identity and negotiating their identity to showcase learnings for frontline social workers. We will explore the different kinds of impact that their identities can have on young people’s journeys through care. Our presenters are Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Kusha Anand (PhD) and Assistant Professor Alison Halford of Coventry University.

Lunch & Learn: LGBTQ+ Adoption

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OPEN TO ALL
Part 4 of our Lunch & Learn series in collaboration with Adoption England. This event addresses the numerous challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces while caring for children, including discrimination, lack of inclusive support, and societal stigmatisation. Our Presenter is Charlotte Andrew from Proud2B Parents.

Exploring Expertise: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

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This session aims to provide adoption services and practitioners an overview of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). It aims to help fostering and adoption services by providing strategies and resources to assist adoption agencies who are working with children or young people with a FASD diagnosis. Our presenters are Sandy and Martin Butcher, co-founders and co-chairs of the Hertfordshire FASD Support Network. Our Chair is Alice Sewell a trainer at NationalFASD.

Fostering starter pack

Bookshop product-- Fergus Smith, Chris Brann and Alexandra Conroy Harris / Pat Beesley / Shefali Shah

Essential reading for newly qualified social workers