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FREE FOR MEMBERS
The Black Adoption Project is a partnership between four Regional Adoption Agencies (covering 24 London boroughs) and Laurelle Brown Training & Consultancy, working in collaboration with people with lived experience of Black adoption, and with Black communities in London.

This two hour training will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding Convention Adoption for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues regarding Convention Adoption overseas cases during a case study and group discussion.

This two-day open course will provide practitioners and particularly those who may be new to undertaking, quality assuring or considering fostering assessments with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and practice in completing fostering assessments. This workshop may also provide a refresher for those wanting to reflect and build on knowledge skills and best practice in the completion of fostering assessments.

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As ongoing reforms put greater emphasis on kinship care join us for a day of contemporary insights from researchers, senior leaders, carers and professionals in the children and families sector. Join the waiting list to receive updates on ticket availability.

This course will explore the support needs of special guardianship families, how to carry out assessment of support needs which are sensitive to the needs of kinship care families, and the how these needs may be most effectively met. This course will explore; best practice, regulation and practice guidance, assessments, eligibility criteria and access to therapeutic support services, the impact of early trauma, identity issues, and the benefits and challenges of contact.

Let's acknowledge and celebrate difference. Understand neurodiversity as a natural variation to ‘the norm’ rather than as something that is disordered, dysfunctional or deficient. This session is an introduction to aspects of neurodiversity including autism, dyslexia and ADHD. It will give an overview to increase participants' knowledge and develop confidence in the subject.

VISIT OUR STAND 51
We are delighted to announce that CoramBAAF will be exhibiting at this year's Community Care Live event. Community Care Live 2024, the UK's largest free to attend social work event. Come chat to us at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 0QH

FREE FOR MEMBERS
Join us for an informative and interactive event exploring good practice in the early identification of prospective kinship carers. We are delighted to announce a panel of professionals from Tower Hamlets and Birmingham Children's Trust who will join our kinship consultants and outbound permanence advisor for a discussion on prospective kinship carers in the UK and abroad.

The Good Practice Guide, Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: Learning from case reviews 2007–2019, is based on a UK wide study of 52 case reviews concerning 98 children who had experienced serious harm while living with foster carers, adopters or special guardians. The study spans 12 years and is the first to focus exclusively on reviews of cases of children in alternative family care. It shines a spotlight on those issues particular to these children – selection and assessment of carers; support for children and carers; and the supervision and management of arrangements.

This course will enable participants to explore how ongoing life story work contributes to children's and young people's understanding of their past, present and future.