BASW publishes report on social workers
Read CoramBAAF's response to BASW's report which explores the position of social workers in the complex world of adoption.
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Read CoramBAAF's response to BASW's report which explores the position of social workers in the complex world of adoption.
We are looking for individuals and couples who would like to take part in local and national media opportunities for LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week 2018.
John Simmonds, CoramBAAF's Director of Policy, Research and Development, writes on the publication of the Education Select Committee's report on fostering.
The Minister of State for Children and Families has announced an additional £1 million for the ASF this financial year and that fair access limits will remain as they currently are till the end of March 2020.
A SCIE Expert Working Group has recently published a report, Improving Mental Health Support for our Children and Young People, reinforcing a wider public debate about mental health and the need for radical improvement. CoramBAAF’s John Simmonds comments on the report’s findings.
CoramBAAF urges children's minister Robert Goodwill to include fostered child in the entitlement to an extra 15 hours of free childcare each week.
From enquiries to CoramBAAF’s members’ Advice Line it has become apparent that there is currently some confusion among fostering services in England about the usual fostering limit (the number of children carers can foster at the same time), exemptions to this, and the terms of foster carers’ approval. To provide guidance to members on these issues, we have produced information setting out the current position.
Respondents to Adoption UK newsletter survey report ' a quarter of adoptive families in crisis'.
Why don't more individuals and couples who experience infertility go on to adopt?
Following the story in The Times newspaper reporting that a Christian girl had been placed in foster care with a Muslim family and this had caused her distress, CoramBAAF provided expert comment for several broadcast media channels on the legislation, practice and decisions surrounding fostering.
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