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Alternatives to custody: developing specialist fostering for children in conflict with the law
- Author:
- ALTERNATIVES TO CUSTODY PROJECT
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This book explores role of foster care in delivering child-friendly justice, offering a direct alternative to custody by providing safe care, nurturing relationships, boundaries and structured care giving. It is one of the main outcomes of a two-year pan-European project, funded by the European Commission’s Daphne III programme, on developing intensive and remand fostering programmes for young people in conflict with the law, who might otherwise be in custody. The first part sets out a context and examines the limited role that foster care currently plays in youth justice, and the potential for its greatly expanded use. An overview sets out the key international and European juvenile justice and children’s rights standards, the EU policy context, and the components found in effective youth justice systems, including prevention, diversion and community-level services. The second part contains policy overviews from Italy, Bulgaria, England and Hungary, containing each country’s achievements, needs and shortcomings in youth justice, and an assessment of the prospects for implementing an extended role for foster care in youth justice in the future. Chapters on setting up and operating a fostering service for children in conflict with the law and setting out a quality standards framework offer practical tools. A training programme to prepare and train prospective foster carers for the task of fostering children in conflict with the law comprises the third section, offering a preparation course that is designed to be informative and equip prospective foster carers with knowledge and skills. (Edited publisher abstract)
Digital life story work: using technology to help young people make sense of their experience
- Authors:
- HAMMOND Simon P., COOPER Neil J.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This practical guide aims to bring the benefit of life story work, most often undertaken with younger children, to young people and adolescents. With the use of free software, smartphones and camcorders the authors demonstrate how digital technology can be used in exciting and contemporary ways to support and become an integral instrument of life story work. Topics covered include: why life story work is so important and what can be achieved; how to work successfully with young people, including negotiating expectations, setting boundaries and managing risks; points to consider when setting up and undertaking a project; how to prepare and edit visual and audio material to produce something the young person can be proud of. A series of fun and engaging projects are described including; photo collages, making soundtracks, creating cartoons, and filming guided walks. While the products created by this technology will not be traditional life story books, the authors demonstrate that new digital technology can be used to further the therapeutic process of helping young people build a relationship with a caring adult while reflecting on their lives. The book is aimed at all those working with or looking after young people who cannot live with their birth families, including social workers, residential workers, therapists, counsellors, foster carers and adopters.
Social networking and you
- Author:
- FURSLAND Eileen
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides information for adopted and long-term fostered teenagers on using social networking sites such as Facebook, chat rooms and instant messaging. The booklet provides general advice on how to stay safe online and then looks at issues around getting in contact with, or being contacted by, birth relatives and what it could mean for the young person. The booklet highlights the importance of discussing these issues with their adoptive parents of foster carers.
Stepfamily adoption: what it is and what it means: a guide for children and young people
- Author:
- FRANCIS Jo
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet is aimed at children and young people who may already be in a stepfamily as well as those who may soon be part of a stepfamily. It explores how and why every stepfamily is different, and looks at the advantages and disadvantages of living in a stepfamily. It explains what stepfamily adoption means, how it happens, and why it takes so long. It also explains how stepfamily adoption changes a child’s life. The book also provides details of organisations which can provide further advice and support for young people.
Policy and practice implications from the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study: forty five key questions
- Authors:
- RUTTER Michael, et al
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Initiated in 1992 because of the major uncertainties about what would happen to children adopted by UK families from extremely depriving Romanian institutions, the ERA study has been reported on, at initial and then follow-up stages, over the past 17 years, with the most recent findings published in 2009. This book considers the policy and practice implications of what has been learned through this longitudinal study. It tackles those questions most often posed by practitioners and policy makers including the following: does the removal from institutions and the adoption into well functioning families bring about recovery for these children?; what are the challenges for the children and for the adopting families?; what are the effects on the young people of leaving institutional care?; what are the effects of deprivation on physical development and psychological functioning?; what are the service implications of these? It will be of great interest, both in the UK and internationally, to practitioners, policy makers, adoptive families, academics and all others interested in the outcomes for children adopted into the UK from institutions overseas.
Caring for a young person who has been trafficked: a guide for foster carers
- Author:
- FURSLAND Eileen
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide for foster carers defines as trafficking as buying and selling human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labour. It explains how children and young people fall prey to traffickers, looks at trafficking into and within the UK, the effects of trafficking, the signs that a young person has been trafficked, and how to look after a child who may have been trafficked. It includes notes on sources of further help and information.
Looking after a young person who has been trafficked: a guide for social workers
- Author:
- FURSLAND Eileen
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In recent years, the official UK response to trafficking has developed rapidly. Trafficking is defined as a form of exploitation in which people are tricked, enticed or forced into leaving their homes in order to be used for sexual abuse, labour exploitation and criminal activity. This guide attempts to explain what social workers need to know when a trafficked child or young person comes to the attention of social services, because they have been found, or have approached children’s services themselves, or made acclaim for asylum. It provides information on: trafficking within and into the UK, how children fall prey to traffickers, why young people may be trafficked and what happens to them once they are, the local authority’s legal duty towards trafficked children and what to do if starting to look after a child who may have been trafficked. Brief information on how to identify a child that may have been trafficked is also given. The guide is illustrated with case studies and quotations from young people who have been trafficked.
Coming to the UK: a guide for children and young people seeking asylum
- Author:
- FURSLAND Eileen
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Where eligibility has been established, the children and young people receive services within the framework that applies to all children and young people in the care of Social Services. This framework is set out in the Children Act 1989. Young people are provided with accommodation, usually in shared rooms in shared houses. This accommodation will be in or outside London. Under certain circumstances, young people may be placed with a family who can provide extra support. A sufficient amount of money is given to buy food and suitable clothes. If school/college is being attended money will be given for bus fares. The young people may also be in need of help to develop independent living skills e.g. cooking and budgeting skills.
The emotional well-being of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK
- Authors:
- CHASE Elaine, KNIGHT Abigail, STATHAM June
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 146p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents findings from an in-depth study of the perspectives and experiences of children and young people arriving unaccompanied to seek asylum in the UK. The research, conducted by the Thomas Coram Research Unit and supported by the Department of Health, is based on conversations with 54 young people from 18 countries, supplemented by interviews with key professionals with expertise and knowledge of working with this group. The young participants speak movingly about their journeys and the shock of arriving in the UK, about being in care and about their experiences of a range of health, education, social care, immigration and legal services. Implications for policy and practice are listed at the end of each chapter. This study is essential reading for social workers, foster carers, asylum teams and all those who support and care for young people seeking refuge in the UK.
10 top tips for preparing care leavers
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 114p.
- Place of publication:
- London
How do young people who have grown up in care survive without a safety net to fall back on? How do they get through the turmoil of the late teens and early twenties without the emotional and financial support of a loving family behind them? In other words, how do these young people make it? Some do and of course there are many who don’t. Some years ago, Frank Dobson MP wrote a letter asking local authorities to so for care leavers what they would do for their own children. Sadly, that message remains as relevant today as it was then. Many care leavers tell of being ill–equipped to deal with leaving care and the stress of having to suddenly cope on their own. This book is for all those who work with young people who are preparing to leave care and step into life as independent young adults – social workers, leaving care workers, residential care workers and others.