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Completing a child's permanence report: a guide to collecting and analysing information for a child’s permanence report (CPR) England
- Authors:
- DIBBEN Elaine, et al
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based permanence report for a looked after child, using the British Association for Adoption and Fostering form CPR (for England), revised in 2014. The guide looks at parts 1, 2 and 3 of the form, along with section C, which pull together information about the child; possible contact arrangements (Edited publisher abstract)
Facilitating adoptions from care: a compendium of effective and promising practices
- Authors:
- SMITH Susan Livingston, DONALDSON ADOPTION INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 288
- Place of publication:
- London
This book focuses on child welfare research across England, the US and Canada to consider whether young people in care would have better outcomes if permanent adoptive or guardian families could be found for them. It explores options available to governments and professionals to offer the best prospects for finding a permanent family for young people who cannot return home. This compendium identifies 22 innovative practices that have shown promise in achieving permanence, primarily through adoption or guardianship. These include organisational practices, court practices, recruitment and retention of families, pre-adoptive casework processes, and supporting and preserving adoptive families. The book will be useful for all adoption professionals. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adoption for looked after children: messages from research: an overview of the adoption research initiative
- Author:
- THOMAS Caroline
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 121
- Place of publication:
- London
Commissioned by the (former) Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Adoption Research Initiative set out to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A series of seven large and complex studies examined how the objectives of the Act were being translated into local policies, procedures and practices; measured the outcomes for children who had recently been placed for adoption or in other permanent placements; and assessed the impact of the placements on their families and carers. This overview brings together the key findings from the research initiative; provides a body of evidence from which we can learn about the effects of earlier attempts to develop a system suited to the adoption of looked after children; highlights some of the problems that have endured within the adoption system as it has continued to evolve, but also describes the significant progress that has been made. The findings from the Adoption Research Initiative have been available to the government to inform its proposals for change. The studies’ key messages for policy and practice offer a resource to all those with responsibilities for the implementation of the new reform programme. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adoption for looked after children: messages from research: an overview of the adoption research initiative
- Author:
- THOMAS Caroline
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 122p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides an overview of the Adoption Research Initiative in order to explore the key challenges for adoption in the UK. The aim of the Adoption Research Initiative was to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. A series of 7 large and complex studies: examined how the objectives of the Act were being translated into local policies, procedures and practices; measured the outcomes for children who had recently been placed for adoption or in other permanent placements; and assessed the impact of the placements on their families and carers. Each study was independently peer reviewed and led by experienced researchers. A wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. This report discusses the 4 themes that emerged from the findings: permanence; finding a family; adoption support; and contact. It includes a synthesis of the key findings from 11 research reports from the research initiative, provides a body of evidence from which to learn about the effects of earlier attempts to develop a system suited to the adoption of looked after children, and highlights some of the problems and progress within the UK adoption system.
Moving pictures
- Authors:
- ARGENT Hedi, ALTON Hilary, FULLER Rachel
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 18p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource is designed to help children (aged four and above) explore ideas of moving and permanence. It consists of a CD-ROM which contains 16 black and white drawings, illustrating various aspects of the move to permanence. They can be printed out for children to colour in and are intended to spark discussion of the child’s thoughts, wishes and hopes around the idea of moving to a new family. They can be used to prepare a child for a specific move or as part of life story work. The accompanying book provides guidelines, advice and suggested questions for the practitioner or carer working with the child. The resource is written to help children and adults enjoy an activity together, while tackling challenging and possibly painful topics. Themes covered include: different families and home; cooking and eating; helping each other; family rules; playing together; going to school; arguments in the family; loving and hugging; and giving and celebrating.
Dealing with disruption in fostering and adoption placements
- Authors:
- ARGENT Hedi, COLEMAN Jeffrey
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 97p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This good practice guide is concerned with children who move into a permanent placement and then have to move again contrary to expectations. Many of these children have complex histories of neglect and harm. This guide offers: an overview of what research tells us; an insight into the factors that commonly lead to disruption; advice on managing and chairing disruption meetings; the consideration of alternative models; an exploration of the impact of disruption on all concerned; and guidance on moving on from disruption. This second edition has been revised and updated to include information on disruption in fostering placements as well as to reflect best practice, findings from recent research and changes to relevant legislation. The authors believe that while some placements will inevitable disrupt, this does not happen overnight. There is usually a process leading to disruption, even if it happens at an early stage or during introductions. It is suggested that If carers and workers together can devise an early warning system a final crisis may be averted. Case studies are used to illustrate the points made and appendices include a sample of a disruption report.
Rethinking matching in adoptions from care: a conceptual and research review
- Author:
- QUINTON David
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 130p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review focuses on the concepts and research evidence about matching children to their adoptive families. It looks at the intentions behind the process, the beliefs and principles on which it is based and the evidence on its effectiveness. Current policy and practice agree that linking children’s needs and adoptive parents’ capacities to meet them is the best way to ensure the stability and success of adoptive placements. But how much is really know about matching, the best ways to go about it and the likely outcomes. Is there any evidence of what works and what doesn’t? Can research and practice ever replicate or predict the indefinable “fit” or “click” of personal chemistry? This review: examines the concepts used in discussions on matching, including “needs”, “capacities”, “race” and “ethnicity”, and how these can affect the way in which matching is approached in policy and practice. The author outlines the current research base and what this can add to the matching task, with suggestions for how gaps in knowledge could be addressed and priorities for future adoption research He explores the current models of the assessment of children and potential parents, and discusses how the process of assessment might be improved.
Planning for contact in permanent placements: good practice guide
- Author:
- ADAMS Paul
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Good Practice Guide is designed to assist social workers and managers planning contact in the context of permanence; an aspect of their work generally regarded as complex and challenging. Replacing an older BAAF guide, this new document aims to help practitioners: formulate well thought out contact plans; make informed decisions resulting in improved outcomes for children; present well argued and reasoned justifications for the contact plans set out in written reports, including contact reports; and feel more confident in recommending particular contact plans and defending them when necessary. Aimed primarily at children’s social workers, the guide sets out the history and context of contact; considers the purpose of contact; brings together the research evidence; presents the legal context for each of the four countries of the UK; and looks at what should be considered when assessing and formulating a contact plan including kinship placements. All the recommendations are supported with case studies.
Effective adoption panels: guidance on regulations, process and good practice in adoption and permanence panels in England
- Authors:
- LORD Jenifer, CULLEN Deborah
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 5th ed.
This guide is aimed at new and existing central list and adoption panel members in England, as well as all those who come into contact with the work of panels, including social workers, agency managers, committee members, adoptive parents and foster carers. The new edition has been comprehensively revised in the light of the new adoption standards, regulations and guidance (2011). It aims to: inform panel members about their roles and responsibilities; update them on current legislation and issues of good practice; help them integrate this work within their own agency context and policies; equip them with the knowledge, understanding and confidence needed to make appropriate recommendations in the best interests of children; and to encourage them to play a full role as individual panel members and to continue to learn more about this task. The guidance is organised into six chapters which focus on: establishing the panel; agency policy and practice issues; considering adoption for a child; families offering placements; matching children and families; and intercountry adoption. Appendices include: sample job and person specifications for central list and panel members; sample review formats; a checklist, and a list of useful books for further reading.
10 top tips: making matches
- Author:
- COUSINS Jennifer
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 115p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Selecting a new permanent family for a child in care is one of the most far-reaching decisions that social workers have to make. However in family-finding, there are no clearly right and wrong answers. A match is a relationship constructed artificially out of necessity. It is “a social experiment”, with no clear predictors of success. This book explores what social workers can do to try and ensure the best match? It considers the needs of both children and adults and discusses how a balance in meeting both can be maintained. It aims to clarify the issues and develop practice, by looking at some fundamental steps that workers can take to ensure that the matching process is as carefully considered as possible. Each of the ten chapters presents a basic “tip” these are: putting aside prejudices; not treating disabled children differently; remembering there is no such things as a perfect match; being sensitive to the complexities of ethnic matching; learning lessons from disruption research and understanding the risks; assessing the child thoroughly and developing the skills to do so; understanding the proposed family and their needs; considering the process; making the best match possible; and providing support right from the start.