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As part of Social Work England: Social Work Week (20-24 March 2023) - a programme of events from across the sector. The webinar examined how social workers write about children and young people. Care experienced adults report that reading their files can be hugely impactful for them. We discussed how language used when describing a child and their experiences can be interpreted at a later date.

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In this session Denise McLean, experienced social worker and chair of CoramBAAF's Black Workers Support Group, will be sharing her experiences of sibling reunion and meeting some of her siblings for the first time as an adult, and reflecting on this from both her personal and her professional perspective. Denise will also discuss her reflections and implications for social work practice.

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CoramBAAF delivered a series of webinars in relation to diversity and adoption on behalf of Adoption England. These short webinars explore promising practice in adoption work in relation to issues of diversity.

Part two of our Lunch & Learn series in collaboration with Adoption England. Yoni Ejo returns to deliver a presentation on family finding and adoption assessment. This session focuses on the challenges facing transracially adopted children and parents from the perspective of a transracial adoptee and adopter

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This session offers the opportunity to hear from practitioners with lived experience of black kinship care and discusses using co-production with black kinship families to create better outcomes for care, support and services.

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Very little is known about what it is like to be a carer for a sibling, or being brought up by your older sister or brother. This session will focus on the findings from a narrative study focused on the experiences of these sibling-headed families, and practitioner experiences in assessing and supporting them. Our presenter is Lorna Stabler. Lorna has been a Research Associate at CASCADE, Cardiff University for five years and is currently an ESRC funded PhD student at DECIPHer, Cardiff University.

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Permanence remains the goal of children’s social care. But ensuring that children from troubled backgrounds grow up in ‘stable homes, built on love’ (Department for Education 2023) is inevitably a challenge in all forms of permanence. Emeritus Professor Gillian Schofield OBE and Dr. Birgit Larsson deliver their assessment of long-term foster care as a permanence option by sharing the messages from 25 years' of research at the University of East Anglia.

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This session focused primarily on supporting children who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse prior to coming into care. It offered information on how domestic abuse affects children at different ages and stages in their development, the care these children need, and how best to assess, prepare and support them and the families caring for them. Presented by Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose OBE.

Exposure to domestic abuse can have long-term consequences for children’s health and development. These may not be immediately apparent once children have been removed from an abusive home and are living with alternative carers. The impact of domestic abuse can be missed in assessment and planning, resulting in children not receiving the level of care and support they need.

This Good Practice Guide is the first to focus primarily on supporting children who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse prior to coming into care. It offers information on how domestic abuse affects children at different ages and stages in their development, the care these children need, and how best to assess, prepare and support them and the families caring for them.