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International FASD Awareness Day 2018
9 September 2018 marks International FASD Awareness Day - a day which focuses on the dangers of drinking during pregnancy and addresses the plight of individuals and families who struggle with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).
July-August round up
Welcome to this round-up article, highlighting some of the important projects and programmes CoramBAAF has been engaged in over July and August 2018 – plus a look-ahead at other projects, conferences and publications.
Five questions with Shelagh Beckett - Childcare Consultant
We spoke to Childcare Consultant Shelagh Beckett ahead of the CoramBAAF conference 'Beyond Together or Apart', at which she will be speaking. The conference will also mark the launch of the new Good Practice Guide 'Beyond together or apart', which updates our earlier, extremely popular title 'Together or apart?'.
John Simmonds, CoramBAAF Director of Policy, Research and Development comments on the Child Practice Review following the death of Elsie Scully-Hicks
John Simmonds, CoramBAAF Director of Policy, Research and Development comments on the Child Practice Review following the death of Elsie Scully-Hicks
ITV report on families living with child on parent violence: CoramBAAF comment
On 30 July 2018, an ITV News broadcast covered new research which found six in ten families living with child on parent violence experience daily attacks. 538 families across the country took part and 53% of the sample were adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers or guardians.
NAGALRO publishes guide to CAFCASS’s Professional Time Guidance
Over recent months NAGALRO has led a number of sector organisations in challenging and objecting to CAFCASS’s 2017 Professional Time Guidance...
BLOG: Elaine Dibben reports back from International Conference on Adoption Research, Montreal
CoramBAAF's Adoption Development Consultant Elaine Dibben blogs from the International Conference on Adoption Research in Montreal.
Department for Education - Adoption Register Consultation is open until 27 July
The Department for Education has published a targeted consultation on the Adoption Register Regulations. The consultation seeks views from Adoption Register users, as well as sector organisations, on whether DfE should amend Regulations in order to increase the amount of information an approved prospective adopter is able to view about a child on the Adoption Register.