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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.
CoramBAAF's Adoption Development Consultant Elaine Dibben blogs from the International Conference on Adoption Research in Montreal.
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.
Welcome to this round-up article, highlighting some of the important projects and programmes CoramBAAF has been engaged in over May and June 2018 – plus a look-ahead at other projects, conferences and publications.
Read our 5 minute Q&A with clinical psychologists Dr Emily Doncaster and Dr Bronwyn Harrison-Stewart, speakers at the CoramBAAF Health Group Conference, "Similar but different - responding to the health needs of unique children".
The latest information on the agreed Interagency Fees for placements between LAs and RAAs and for placements with VAAs.
Read our interview with Savita De Sousa, CoramBAAF consultant, on issues concerning Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicities in Adoption and Fostering.
John Simmonds, CoramBAAF Director of Policy, Research and Development, has published an article in Community Care on the increasing challenges that critical social media posts can cause in care proceedings, highlighting the impact on children in care.
RESEARCH REPORT: Among the last ones to leave? Understanding the Journeys of Muslim Children in the Care System in England by Coventry University, Penny Appeal and CoramBAAF
Read about a new international fostering project managed by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, which is being led by CoramBAAF and Coram Children’s Legal Centre in the UK .
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