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FOR FOSTERING PANEL CHAIRS AND ADVISORS
We are delighted to invite all current Fostering Panel Chairs and Fostering Panel Advisors to a jointly hosted event by CoramBAAF and The Fostering Network. Our focus for this session is increasing and maintaining panel diversity. Our speaker for this event is Dr. Arlene Weekes.

The Secure Base Model devised by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (UEA) focuses on the interactions that occur between caregivers and children, through the provision of a positive framework for therapeutic caregiving, which helps infants, children and young people to move towards greater security and builds resilience.

WATCH AGAIN
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.

This two-day open course will provide practitioners and particularly those who may be new to undertaking adoption assessments with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and practice in completing adoption assessments. Practitioners will be enabled to consider thorough, rigorous, consistent and fair approaches across the service in the assessment of prospective adopters. This course may also provide a refresher for those wanting to reflect and build on knowledge skills and best practice in the completion of adoption assessments.

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 open course aims to give new and recently appointed fostering and adoption panel members an opportunity to develop their role as effective panel members and to consider the tasks and responsibilities involved. This will be within the context of the current legislative framework and emerging messages from research. Fostering and adoption/permanency panel work is challenging to all concerned in the process. This course is intended to share issues, dilemmas and best practice.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
Ruth Copson will share findings from her doctoral research which explores how Family Time/contact for infants in Early Permanence placements is managed and experienced by those closely involved. The perspectives of birth parents, Early Permanence carers and practitioners will be shared with reflections on how infants respond to Family Time.

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.

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.

Analysing adult health assessments is a key element of assessing adopters and foster carers. This includes providing reports and evidence-based comments so that panels can reach appropriate decisions. This course is designed to support medical advisers in their role. It is particularly suitable for new or inexperienced medical advisers.