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CoramBAAF and Coram Children’s Legal Centre provide kinship care recommendations to Parliamentary Taskforce

CoramBAAF and Coram Children’s Legal Centre have provided evidence on current practice in kinship care assessments and recommendations for improvements to the cross-party Parliamentary Taskforce on Kinship Care. The Taskforce was launched in December 2018 to raise awareness about, and support for, children in kinship care, and will produce a report with recommendations from the sector by autumn 2019.

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Celebrating Soul Workers

The 1980s saw the start of significant developments in family finding for black children in public care in England. Following the publication of John Simmonds’ discussion paper on the importance of identity, it seemed timely to catch up with some of the pioneering social workers who identified and championed new approaches, revisit the work they did and consider what we can learn for work today. This article, written by Savita de Sousa, is based on interviews with black social workers involved in these developments over the years.

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CoramBAAF and CCLC stands with The Children’s Society and ECPAT UK to urge the Home Office to do more to help trafficked children

CoramBAAF and CCLC have co-signed a letter to Sajid Javid calling on him to introduce independent legal guardians to support all separated and trafficked children and not just those suspected as victims of modern slavery. It follows the publication of the third interim report on child trafficking advocates, as part of the review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

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DfE invites funding bids for proposals from fostering partnerships to improve commissioning and sufficiency planning

One of the commitments made by DfE in Fostering Better Outcomes was to offer seed-funding to fostering partnerships in order to develop proposals for improving commissioning and sufficiency planning. With support from the National Stability Forum, the department is providing a total of £500k in seed-funding, which local authorities and their partners are invited to bid to access in order to carry out feasibility studies into proposals to improve foster care in their region.

Nutmeg series bundle

March deal of the month

This month we’re offering all six titles in our popular Nutmeg series of children’s books for just £40.

Life story work book bundle

February deal of the month!

To celebrate National Storytelling Week we’re offering two of our key life story work titles for just £20 for the whole of February.