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Ten top tips for placing disabled children
- Author:
- ARGENT Hedi
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2015
This book provides an essential checklist for practitioners looking to place a disabled child within a new family. It considers different types of placement - when to consider permanent foster care and when to consider adoption; and the recruitment and support of potential families. It also covers: knowing the child before learning about the disabling condition; urges social workers to check their own attitudes to disability; respecting and working with the birth family; and ensuring families know what resources are available, including placement support. Top tips are offered by a parent with first-hand experience of adopting a boy, now a teenager, with cerebral palsy. (Edited publisher abstract)
Being a foster family: what it means and how it feels: a guide for young children
- Author:
- ARGENT Hedi
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following the story of Max and Joseph, whose family fosters, this booklet explores what fostering means, how it affects Max's and Josh's lives, and how they can welcome and help the children who come to stay with them. Colourfully illustrated and presented in accessible language, the booklet can help children to understand the complexities of being in a foster family.
Where are my brothers and sisters?: a guide for young fostered and adopted children
- Author:
- ARGENT Hedi
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following the story of Billy and Carl, who are fostered, this booklet explores the different ways in which children may be looked after and what this can mean for the relationship between siblings. The booklet has colourful illustrations and is written in accessible language. It can help children to better understand why siblings may be separated.
10 top tips for placing children in permanent families
- Author:
- ARGENT Hedi
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 90p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book explores the issue of child placements, with an emphasis on evidence from practice and experience. It provides clear and concise accounts of what works and what does not, and includes the views of children and families. Each of the ten chapters explores a key theme – such as finding a family, agreeing a support plan, and promoting openness- in an accessible, straightforward and highly readable style. Checklists are included throughout that provide clear guidance on issues to be considered as well as suggestions of actions to be taken. There are relevant research studies and further reading at the end of each chapter.
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.
See you soon: contact with children looked after by local authorities
- Editor:
- ARGENT Hedi
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 205p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers exploring issues around planning and managing appropriate contact for children in care and their birth families.