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On the 27 September, Terry will be joined by a panel consisting of Anne Longfield, CBE, Cllr. Bryony Goodliffe, CCC, Cllr. Jemima Laing, PCC, Florence Chiwetu and two young people supported by CoramVoice to discuss, debate and share his vision of a more equitable future for care-experienced people. We will also be discussing the pathways and priorities for bringing “care experienced” under the protection of law and what this could mean for policy and practice. Our Chair is Ellen Broomé, Managing Director of CoramBAAF. Join us at 11.30am. for our key Members' Week event. 

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A webinar led by our kinship care consultants, Ann Horne and Clare Seth, exploring the challenges and complexities of care planning in kinship care. In the webinar, Ann and Clare will map out the care planning journey from early identification of potential carers to securing legal permanence. They will explore the challenges including assessment, regulations and guidance but also offer suggestions for good practice.

This half-day training is aimed at local authority professionals – both social workers and lawyers - who are involved in the placement of children currently living in the UK with 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 regarding Special Guardianship overseas cases during case studies and group discussion.

This half-day training is aimed at local authority professionals who are involved in the placement of children currently living with kinship carers in the UK; being placed overseas with kinship carers. It will provide an overview of the available research and Outbound data for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues regarding viability and support plans for overseas cases during case studies and group discussion.

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In this session Paul Shuttleworth will be discussing why children's views are worthy of inclusion in research and shaping policy and practice in kinship care. Paul will discuss his research, the first that solely listens to children's insights about emotional permanence. The research also champions a new ‘what matters’ approach. This can be used in further research as well as in practice and everyday family life.

This research study describes the setting up of the first rigorous test in the UK to look at the efficacy of particular kinds of adoption support. It aimed to discover whether the addition of one-on-one parenting advice sessions made a difference compared with a comparison group receiving routine support services.

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CoramBAAF has listened to and liaised with members and is delighted to announce this national Private Fostering Awareness Day. Join us for a free and open access Breakfast Briefing – An Introduction to Private Fostering from 9am - 9.45am. Our Lunch and Learn webinar starts at 12.30pm and runs for 90 minutes allowing members to hear about promising practice from different local authorities with the focus on raising awareness. Please register your interest here.

MEMBERS ONLY
Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced author, social worker and campaigner & Emma Fincham is a social worker and fostering consultant. In this webinar they will explore how thinking, speaking and writing about young people directly impacts on increasing or decreasing their opportunities, their choices and decisions available to them.

OPEN TO ALL
This session focuses on the English and Romanian Adoptees Study using qualitative research to characterise A) the service needs and experiences, B) the transition to parenthood and C) social relationship experiences. This talk will be delivered by Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Dr Chris Edwards and Dr Mark Kennedy, from King’s College, London.