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The Secure Base model: promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption
- Authors:
- SCHOFIELD Gillian, BEEK Mary
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 94
- Place of publication:
- London
All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour. What strategies can be used to provide sensitive caregiving that develops secure close relationships? How can children be helped to recover from earlier harmful experiences and feel competent to face future challenges successfully and fulfil their potential? What can help children develop resilience, self-esteem and the capacity to reflect on their feelings and have a sense of hope for the future? Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research. It provides a valuable framework and a strengths-based approach for making sense of children’s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential. This practical guide to the Secure Base is designed to support social workers and other professionals involved in all aspects of fostering and adoption practice, from recruitment, assessment and preparation to matching and long-term support for placements through to adulthood. It will enable workers to effectively promote attachment and resilience in foster care. An accompanying DVD explains the five dimensions of the Secure Base model in practice through the voices and experiences of adopters, foster carers and young people. (Publisher abstract)
Getting it right: social work court reports in child care cases in Scotland
- Author:
- PLUMTREE Alexandra
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- New ed.
This guide is designed to give comprehensive advice on the preparation and writing of social work court reports in Scottish child care cases. It is a new and updated version of the previous guide written in 2005 and has been expanded to cover a wide range of court proceedings. Cases covered are: permanence orders and permanence orders with authority for adoption, including amendments, variations and revocations; domestic agency adoptions; domestic non-agency adoptions ; foreign adoption applications for section 59 orders and Convention adoption orders; agency adoptions where Scottish children are placed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ; and private law applications. The topics covered include: principles to be followed; types of courts and cases; sources of information; parental responsibilities and rights; disclosure issues; legal requirements in the different cases; content and layout of reports; and what happens to reports, including access and retention. Some of the relevant court rules and other provisions are included in the appendices. (Edited publisher abstract)
Meeting children's needs through adoption and fostering
- Author:
- BRITISH AGENCIES FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTERING
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
An adoption diary
- Author:
- JAMES Maria
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 148p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This real life account of an adoption, chronicles every aspect of the adoption process, from the moment when the decision to adopt is made following years of infertility. Spanning almost four years the diary covers the assessment procedure, the workshops, the heartache of months of waiting, and the final match with a two-year-old boy who lives over 200 miles away. The author talks openly and honestly of the difficulties of a long distance adoption, explores what it feels like when an adoption finally happens and charts the first few months of family life.
Profiling children on the Internet: a good practice guide
- Author:
- BARNETT Denise
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Good Practice Guide considers using the internet for finding permanent families for children in the public care system. It draws on information gathered through surveys conducted by a BAAF project, Finding Families for Children on the Internet (FF4C) during 2005. It also draws on findings about agency websites focusing on adoption and ostering. The guide specifically addresses profiling children on the nternet, privacy and data protection, and getting the website and ontent right. This guide will be invaluable for family placement workers reparing profiles of children, as well as for those agencies already using their websites for familyfinding purposes.
Getting it right: social work court reports in child care cases in Scotland
- Author:
- PLUMTREE Alexandra
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides advice on the preparation and writing of court reports in Scottish child care cases. A wide range of cases are covered including; freeings and revocation of freeings; domestic agency and non-agency adoptions; applications for an s.49 order; intercountry adoptions; agency adoptions where Scottish children are placed in England and Wales; applications for PROs, including variation and termination; and private law applications. Key topics covered include: principles to be followed; types of courts and cases; legal requirements in the different cases; content and layout of reports; sources of information and disclosure issues; and what happens to reports including access and retention.
Working with adolescents: supporting families, preventing breakdown
- Author:
- BIEHAL Nina
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 242p
- Place of publication:
- London
This book reports the findings of a study, commissioned by the Department of Health, into the effectiveness of these specialist support teams. The book charts the development of policy on preventive services for children and provides a comprehensive review of the research on interventions with older children and adolescents. It then outlines the multiple risk factors in the lives of the young people in the study, assesses the services they received and compares outcomes for young people referred to specialist support teams with those for others receiving a mainstream social work service. The study draws out important implications for policy and practice and will provide a valuable resource for social work managers, practitioners and academics. It is also highly pertinent to the focus on early intervention with children in the Children Act 2004 and also to the wider range of government initiatives on parenting being developed by the Home Office and the Youth Justice Board.
A bibliography of family placement literature
- Editors:
- SUDBERY John, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This new annotated edition has been compiled by a research team based at the University of Salford. It provides a timely guide to the principal literature that has charted such developments. The selective coverage of material published since 1993 includes references to publications focusing on legal issues, social work practice, research, family support, looking after children and pertinent themes within the fields of adoption and fostering, including books for children. Reflecting the increasing complexity of this field, the compilers give particular attention to areas such as attachment and therapeutic help, disability, gender and sexuality, "race" and ethnicity and international perspectives.
Private fostering: what it is and what it means: a guide for children and young people
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
What is private fostering? How is it different from being “in care”? Why are children privately fostered? These and other questions on private fostering and what it means are covered in this new booklet for children. It also describes how children should be looked after, what private foster carers should and shouldn’t do, how the social worker can help, and school and health matters. At the back of the book, there are addresses and telephone numbers of useful organisations which children can contact if they experience difficulties.
One of the family: a handbook for kinship carers
- Author:
- ARGENT Hedi
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This handbook aims to give families and friends who are kinship carers, or may become kinship carers, information about the choices they can make, the assessment process, the legal framework, the child care system, the support they can expect and the financial help available. It discusses some of the most common problems faced by kinship carers who have to balance the interests of the child, and the child’s parents, with their own.